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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not surprising. As long as they can afford the servers, it will probably get to Mastadon levels.

Lemmy is a replacement for reddit, and reddit was always much smaller than Instagram.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Hopefully people are willing to donate to their instances to keep them financially healthy. It'll be a pretty big issue for growth if it starts to get popular but the larger instances can't afford to stay operational and disappear.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

... 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yes! We need a better interface between them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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 or defederating them because of Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Pixelfed-eral police

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 388 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

iirc it goes "chafing thighs attract all chicks"

[–] [email protected] 223 points 1 week ago (5 children)

People like looking at photos of food and cats more than being railed for having "incorrect* political viewpoints? (/s for anyone not picking up on that btw:-P)

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (73 children)

I literally just got called a snowflake in another thread for saying people should stop posting US politics in general communities. People still wonder why Lemmy has a bad reputation even in the entire Fediverse... Sometimes I wonder why I still bother here.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago

Kick ass! I'm all for more Fediverse stuff getting popular, and if this has any competition, just means more features will be added across all of them.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah! 2025 is the year of the ~~linux~~ Fediverse ~~desktop~~!

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (35 children)

If you look at monthly active users instead of total users, Pixelfed is a strong 2nd place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've been wondering about that - the Misskey numbers are very weird, with 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.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is this the fediverse's answer to Instagram?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

Yes.

-Instagram has pixelfed. -Reddit has lemmy -X has Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma (&forks..) -Tiktok has loops (app still super rough around the edges and sadly on limited to one instance rather than having its own software from what i understand) -Youtube has peertube (so far the least used i think)

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I can't wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it's got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (5 children)

fuck it, I tried mastodon, I'll give pixelfed a try too.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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