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You can see it if you check https://fedidb.org/. Monthly active users have gone from just a hair under one million to somewhere around 1.4 million and still growing. How do we think this will go? How do we feel about this influx of new users? Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn't?

I feel like I didn't really recognize having different "platforms" like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc would give multiple opportunities for the fediverse to make a "first" impression with people.

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn't?

I suspect image browsing is less reliant on specific content creators, so Pixelfed probably has an advantage there compared to something like Mastodon. You're only going to move to Mastodon if the people you wanna follow are there too, while if you're for example just looking to browse pictures of food and cats you don't really care who is posting so you're not as reluctant to try Pixelfed.

I don't use either Instagram or Pixelfed though so might be totally off base here.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Is there a way to peruse pixelfed feeds from Lemmy or Mastodon? Or do I have to make yet another account?

[–] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can just open the Pixelfed links using your Mastodon instance:

Open URL in Mastodon

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago

IG was always much bigger than Reddit.

Good to see people moving to Pixelfed though.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The mood and anger here is starting to feel like Reddit recently and now I know why

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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know I can Kagi or duckduckgo it or whatever you people are using these days, but what is PixelFed and what's it an alternative to? News aggregators aside, I don't social media so I'm not sure if it's a tiktok or instagram or whatsapp or faceplace.

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I believe it's supposed to be a fediverse version of Instagram. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Haven't really gotten around to checking it out yet. TBH I can read a lot faster than most videos explain concepts.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Pixelfed is really easy to engage with and get a feed started. I think that's let to its popularity growth. I've added mastedon and peertube and neither has made it as easy to onboard.

I still remember the curve with Lemmy. Pixelfed is clearly the easiest to get started with, and then it's just pictures!

[–] Hominy_Hank@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Nothing works on pixelfee for me. Half the photos are just black. It shows an account has a lot of posts, but I don't see anything. Searches being up results but selecting one of those results produces zero results.

How are y'all getting pixelfed to work?

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

We just need to explain federation to them

I really wish it were more straightforward to deploy. It would be great to see many more instances popping up.

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