PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?
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- The official Pixelfed app just has a nicer looking UI
- There's not really a competing app for people leaving Insta like there is Bluesky vs Mastodon
- Pixelfed's content is mostly visual so it's easily digestible to casual users and you don't have to scroll past dry Fedi arguments
- Better discover features so users don't have to do a bunch of legwork to find who to follow
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The tide lifts all the boats... there is also a noticeable uptick in Lemmy registrations, at least here on our instance.
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Pixelfed's monthly userbase has gone from 15k to almost 300k in the past month. Absolutely massive for the fediverse.
I'll probably try it out eventually^TM^
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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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Yup, I spotted a few Lemmy accounts that were less than a week old recently. Very nice.
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Glad to see more people introduced to the tech bro free social media.
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I think I've also seen new communities being created too
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Yeah! Here we're not tech brothers, we're tech gender neutral siblings, or even tech sisters
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What? I respectfully disagree. The reason I struggled to stay on Pixelfed, and recently Loops too, is because as a new user all I was seeing was classical art, and landscapes (and the odd weirdo) but nothing actually entertaining. Loops at least has people copying stuff from TikTok. I'm not condoning that behaviour, I'm just saying as a casual new user, that was pretty much the most compelling content.
Maybe I was doing it wrong, but IMHO the content creators are the core of any social media. Pixelfed and Loops will both live or die by the creators they attract
ETA: I love weirdos by the way, that wasn't meant as a negative. If anything, more please!
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This makes sense to me.
All these people had to pick an instance and now probably understand how to do that.
That’s the biggest hurdle to signing up for lemmy or mastodon.
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The tide lifts all the boats...
Exactly. I do not care much for Pixelfed. Or Mastodon. Or Friendica. Or really much of anything other than Lemmy. But I just stood up my own PixelFed server, so if someone wants to get away from Meta, I will happily support their decision (and pixelfed.social's server by offloading resources) and they can find me there.
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I never vibed with Twitter or Instagram, so I struggled with both Mastodon and Pixelfed. It wasn't until I started looking for content based around my hobbies that Pixelfed really started becoming interesting to me. That, and having the ability to be absolutely deluged in pictures of cats if I need a morale boost. Mastodon is still something that I'm having trouble getting value out of. I may just end up being a Lemmy and Pixelfed user.
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It's barely news worthy. Small mostly unknown service gains 400,000 new accounts. Ok. 400k.
Instagram apperently has 4 BILLION accounts, with 143 MILLION monthly users.
400K sounds great, until you compare it to the pie. It went from less then 1% to less than 1%.
Growth is great and all, but since it's January, I'd rather see a retrospective of where they stood on Jan 1st 2024, and where they stood on Jan 1st 2025. With a detailed analysis on all the fluctuations (which at this point I would assume to be nothing but upwards) but also, what caused each event.
But hearing a single month, with an influx of 400k seems like a non-story, and won't be interesting until Jan 2026 when we get the 2025 retrospective. And we put into context that this was when meta decided to go all political, and ban searches for "democrats", and the whole drama with tiktok.
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Me in 2024: "Which one is the main one?"
"There is no main one"
"Which one is the biggest?"
"Lemmy.World"
"Thats the one for me!"
"THATS NOT HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO IT!!!"
".....but that's what I did."
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We can't want the Fediverse to get bigger but be scared of normies when it does. I say welcome in! We should be careful to listen to the new recruits, because their feedback is the most unbiased.
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Yeah, I have also seen an increase in registrations on my instance as well.
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Is the iPhone app still missing darkmode?
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"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
- https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
- https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
- https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
