Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

[blackmist@feddit.uk]

As a software guy, that just sounds like one bit of software with two audiences that call it different things.

Everyone seems to be stepping on each others toes anyway, with "reels" and shit trying desperately to claw back some of those kids lost to TikTok.

Honestly not sure why the Fediverse is split that way either. A Lemmy client surely contains about 99% of the code to be a Mastodon client or Loops or Pixelfed or any of the others. Just looks like a procession of people constantly reinventing the wheel and painting it a different colour...

[mbm@lemmings.world]

which can be frustrating for the American audience at times

I get it but that sounds so weird to me, lol

[gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de]

... which is absolutely understandable considering how lemmy is most of the time,

it's politics non-stop, one bad news after another, everyone is quick to bash somebody as either a nazi or a tankie or something else.

[damage@feddit.it]

I mean, yeah, what's the difference?

[rooki@lemmy.world]

In the case of "DMs on removal of a post / comment" it is possible to do that with the current api of lemmy. But sadly nothing "official" yet. And it wont come anytime soon as lemmy devs officially announced they wont work at any moderation related topics for a while.

[peregrin5@lemm.ee]

I'm finding the iOS app buggy as heck. It just crashes as soon as I open it. Had to delete it. May try again later.

[damage@feddit.it]

so how do we interact with pixelfed from lemmy or mastodon?

[yuriro@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Pixelfed-eral police

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

It's always going to be like that; photo blogging is a lot more popular than niche forums and bulletin boards.

Also, Pixelfed has a lot more eyes on it because of Meta being in the news.

It's not a bad thing though.

[nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip]

Misskey should have more active users, even more than Pixelfed right now.
Almost all Japanese fediverse users are on Misskey instances.

A lot of post in Misskey instance are often followers only. I know several instance that the admin say they have thousands of users but simply not reporting any MAU users for certain reason.
Even the one that report them are usually lower than actual MAU due to "offline mode"

[stalinwolf@lemmy.ca]

Does the server matter at all? Wasn't able to find a straight pixelfed.ca like I did with Lemmy, but it seems like people always end up dunking on the larger servers.

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

What’s first?

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

there aren't many places where you can discuss politics or at least try to find comfort in seeing others think somewhat same way. No wonder its all concentrating here.
But there definitely should be a lot more non-politics content.

[recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee]

Not surprising since half of lemmy seems to be a support group for inhalant abusers.

[iii@mander.xyz]

iirc it goes "chafing thighs attract all chicks"

[flango@lemmy.eco.br]

Yes! We need a better interface between them

[openstars@piefed.social]

I am not saying that I want DMs enabled to mods, and a modmail, and for a post to remain accessible after being removed, and for notifications to be sent to people upon their content being removed, but the lack of all 4 at the same time is what makes Lemmy difficult for people to handle, and will turn people away (likely back to Reddit).

[pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de]

I've been wondering about that - the Misskey numbers are very weird MAU even lower than the number of new users that join in an average month. But this is a good explanation, thanks. It's just too bad there's not a good way to get MAU for them.

[pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de]

Mastodon

[tabularasa@lemmy.ca]

After an app update, it started working! Yay!