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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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[–] Hominy_Hank@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (3 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?

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

I joined an instance, I discovered some people who posted some cool pictures and so I added them to my feed.

Maybe try dropping the instance you started with?

I gotta say I am rather meh about it, but that isn't pixelfeeds fault. I just dont really care to see people posting random shit online.

But I gotta try so I can explain it to people who do because so many businesses (usually small artists) feel they can't leave Instagram because they don't know where else to market, and their followers won't leave because the business is there.

I can't recommend change without experiencing it so I can help support it.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What instance are you using? How are you accessing it (browser, app, etc.)?

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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.

[–] radiantshackles@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't wanna throw cold water on what should be a celebration, but are these all distinct active users? I have separate accounts on Lemmy, PixelFed, Mastodon, and Loops--do I still count as one active user, or am I four? If the latter, I think it's plenty likely that others like me have simply gotten used to the first fedi platform they chose and are branching out as they learn about more. Maybe doesn't account for all the growth, but would explain away some of the meteoric rise.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its' pretty great.

As with the time I joined Mastodon, it takes a couple of weeks to find what you like and build up a good feed, but once you do that, it's useful and fun. I wish it had more curation tools, but I enjoy it.

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I created a mastodon account a few years ago and I log in every once in a while but I really have no idea how to use it haha, it just keeps updating a bunch of posts and I don't know how to make it stop

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

That's probably the global feed, which yes, moves super-fast. I found that annoying at first too.

There's a checkbox to turn off auto-scroll in settings, and it's got an appropriate name: Slow Mode.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (8 children)

More users isn't necessarily good.

Every time there's an influx from whatever shit storm we retain about 20%.

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[–] pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If it brings more diversity, I’m all for it. If it makes it even more super left psycho Echo chamber-y then it will just be annoying.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Fine with me.

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Need better flagship app tbh. Pixelix is better imo but its 5bucks on playstore and sideloading on my current main phone is a hassle :/

How do I feel?

I was following my Lemmy rule and hunting out smaller instances rather than pile into the biggest one.
tried 4 separate smaller instance sign ups and never got a single one of them to work and send me a verification email, so I kinda gave up....

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago
[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy can't federate with pixelfed yet can it? I know we have some integration with mastodon, but I'm guessing we can't connect to pixelfed directly yet?

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

It can but you can't follow users from Lemmy, same issue as mastodon

[–] BilliamBoberts@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Excited. Anyone know if/when their gonna add dark mode?

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Still no funny content so disappointed

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

Try #meme #memes

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