PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

[empireoflove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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....

[billiamboberts@lemmy.world]

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

[mesamunefire@piefed.social]

Some people care, most don't. Lemmy.workd is the vanilla ice cream of the fediverse. Thanks for being part of the community!

[hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world]

This.

Discovery and convenience are Lemmy's biggest issues and we are not addressing them to the degree we should.

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

Great question. Ideally someone trying to sign up for pixelfed.social say would be automatically shunted over to another instance...

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I like vanilla ice cream. It's a great base. Maybe today you throw some butterscotch and peacans on it! But tomorrow it's caramel and fudge, and the next day it's chocolate chip cookie dough, and yhe day after that it's whipped cream and strawberry syrup. And the day after that it's chocolate sauce with peanuts.

Meanwhile, the guy who got chocolate just ate the same bowl of ice cream for 5 days.

See it's kind of like sex, too. Some people just do the same thing over and over. But what I do, is I take some handcuffs, and chains, and baby oil, and some.... trails off

And that kids, is how I met your Mother!

[melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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!

[alostinquirer@lemm.ee]

What do you mean by user abstraction? First I've seen this mentioned, or put this way.

[br0da@lemmy.world]

Dang for some reason I thought Android had it.

[flashmobofone@lemmy.world]

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.

[johndclay@sh.itjust.works]

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?

[neatobuilds@lemmy.today]

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

[xapr@lemmy.sdf.org]

This is a good point. I'm pretty sure that if you're active on Lemmy, PixelFed, Mastodon, or even have multiple active accounts on multiple instances of each of those (like a lot of people do), each single one of those would count as a separate active user. I really can't think of any way that this wouldn't be the case, because how would the statistics servers know that your the same person?

[flashmobofone@lemmy.world]

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.

[hominy_hank@lemmy.world]

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?

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

It's nice to see. I'd compare it to back when Lemmy was in the same situation and tens of thousands of users came from Reddit to Lemmy over night.

[carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

yup… (at least in the stable channel)

what’s most infuriating is that it used to have it but at some point they redesigned the app and made it worse…?

you don’t have to imitate instagram that much, dansup

[gooberear@lemmy.wtf]

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]

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

[satanclaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I am here to not correct you.