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.

  • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
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    5 days ago

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

  • bruhSoulz@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

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

  • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Lemmy once had a massive influx of new users, a lot left again and monthly active users has remained somewhat constant for a long time now. Let’s wait and see how many people actually stay on PixelFed.

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It’s quite good, in my opinion. If we had some bridge to lemmy’s posts, it would be even better. Also I’ve checked and if you like or comment a mastodon post from Pixelfed you’ll receive the notification, so, it’s something🤷‍♂️.

  • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Lemmy is full of bad news, hate and toxicity while pixelfed is full of artists and people sharing cool pictures and their passion. Visiting my pixelfed account from 2023 a few days ago set such a contrast with what I see on lemmy that I started using it regularly. It really felt weird to visit such a wholesome place after using lemmy for a long time. Now I use pixelfed to balance out the bad stuff from lemmy for maintaining my mental health and to appreciate the art which is not common on lemmy.

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Many groups of lemmy are full of political content but you can block them and still have a decent amount of contents.

      • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        6 days ago

        The political stuff is leaking into any other community though. I’ve already blocked every politics specific and news specific community and a handful other communities and I still get a lot of that. I’m also blocking a few keywords as well, this stuff just gets through regardless of what you do and in no small amount either.

    • ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I hear you. I’m getting tired of the massive amount of posts about trump and elon and politics. I don’t see almost any new content about other stuff.

      • Mubelotix@jlai.luEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Maybe you could try banning words like “elon” or “trump” if you feel overwhelmed. Some apps have this feature

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          5 days ago

          well, i’m against individual workarounds for common problems, there should be common solutions.

          otherwise you just start alienating 99% of the users who won’t put in the effort to install an extra app just to get that filtering, or if using the web interface on mobile, it’s just not possible.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

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

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn’t?

    On this topic I just want to point out the microblog format with twitter even BEFORE musk bought it had gotten very cold, harsh and toxic.

    As a result the most positive thing you can say about people’s feelings about microblogging is that they are bored of it (in terms of it having inspiring potential) even if they use it daily themselves and like it.

    I don’t think that is fair to mastodon or microblogging, it is just how the ships happened to sink as they crashed into the reef.

    I say this all to emphasize that it is ok for mastodon not to get hit by massive hypecycles. Mastodon is useful and awesome, if people see it is as boring I say let that be a compliment because that means people are beginning to slowly trust the medium again.

    Twitter/musk made people REALLY sad about microblogging and it is going to take time for people to get excited about it again like they do for the 'grams and the 'toks.