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

[martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

My script had batch processing of the data with the batch sizes being set to 200. With that the result of communities for this month I was getting was 125. After setting the batch size to 1 making it process each community separately it changed to 313 so who knows if there are any other problems with the script.

[mubelotix@jlai.lu]

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

[zaphod@sopuli.xyz]

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.

[breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca]

I think it was more that he wanted to open source the app but had built it while he was learning so it was pretty messy and he felt insecure about it. So he rebuilt the app from scratch and open-sourced it. It just isn't quite at feature parity to the old app yet. Pretty sure dark mode is coming in the next update though.

[bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml]

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

[thunderlegend@sh.itjust.works]

Gonna try that thanks!

[fossilesque@mander.xyz]

There's an official app now.

[quicky@lemmy.world]

The Discovery section definitely needs work, but the ability to follow hashtags offsets that somewhat. I’ve found loads of great photographers to follow off the back of following hashtags that I’m interested in.

[but_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world]

The mood and anger here is starting to feel like Reddit recently and now I know why

[sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works]

Same problem with Mastodon tbh

[roguetrick@lemmy.world]

As we've proven, actual leftists can't really create an echo chamber because we vehemently disagree with each other on everything.

[damage@feddit.it]

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

[andmoonsvalue@lemmy.world]

You can sign into Pixelfed with your mastodon account.

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

It’s like Reddit and you gotta filter out the bullshit. Adding Elon, Musk, Trump, and RFK to my block list improved my mental health quite a bit. Hopefully if it’s egregious enough it will slip through and I won’t be blind sided by some terrible thing they’re doing. That’s the only downside.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

More users isn't necessarily good.

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

[carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

oooh, yea that’s a good point

and, I mean, the app was in beta, sudden changes are to be expected

but still, I feel like the app was so much better before… its kinda frustrating

[pseudo@jlai.lu]

You can post from PixelFed into Lemmy but you won't see replies and that's too bad.

[gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de]

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.

[rickywars@lemmy.ca]

Well it doesn't seem like there's been another Reddit exodus, especially from looking at the user numbers for Lemmy. There hasn't been a big screwup lately like with Meta or Twitter (but I think Bluesky is absorbing the Twitter refugees currently).

[clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world]

? Why's that not good?