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Pixelfed user count has gone vertical. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by korendian@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 3 points 32 minutes ago

Pixelfed is federated, an account can be made with Mastodon to log into different servers. But it seems different from lemmy in that joining one instance doesn't seem to provide you with a method to view other instances and pick and choose as part of your feed. I think some people find that confusing. Any comments on that?

[-] korendian@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Lemmy is unique on the fediverse, in that it has communities that you can subscribe to. The closest equivalent is community groups on Friendica. Pixelfed is more similar to Mastodon in that you can follow individual accounts, or hashtags/search terms, which is how you subscribe to different content in your feed. For example, I follow #catsofmastodon and see all posts tagged with that in my feed. Hashtagging your posts is very important if you want it to be seen. Lemmy is more oriented towards discussions, which is why communities make more sense in this context than on Pixelfed or Mastodon.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 43 minutes ago

I saw Pixelfed mentioned on TikTok. So yeah!

[-] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

https://vernissage.photos/home may be better than Pixelfed. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/28641458

[-] visc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Who pays for their servers?

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

I'll make an account when it reaches 1M users

[-] moribr@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

So...monday?

[-] rglullis@communick.news 312 points 1 day ago

Lies, damn lies, and graphs that don't have the Y-axis starting at 0.

10% growth in a day is nice, but far from a revolution. Let's see this trend going for a month.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 23 hours ago

the head dev Dan Sup mentioned the number of active users jumping from 6k to 30k. we'll see how it holds, but there is strength in numbers, people only stay if other people see what they post there. i have good hopes and really want to ditch instagram

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Monthly active users increased by 43% between 13 and 14 January: https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

[-] rglullis@communick.news 53 points 1 day ago

https://xkcd.com/605/

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 43 points 1 day ago

I don't think anyone here is arguing that the entire world will be using pixelfed by the end of the year, and that its usage will expand to other galaxies by the end of the decade.

It's a comment about the current growth curve, and it is both accurate and interesting.

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[-] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 172 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To be fair, the Y-Axis doesn't start from zero.

That being said, 10% account growth in 2 days is pretty solid. Let's hope both account creation and engagement metrics (MAUs/DAUs) keep growing.

EDIT: Correct Axis type.

[-] lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

Pedantic: You mean Y-axis, right? Technically, neither start at zero but I think you meant Y based on context.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 48 points 1 day ago

No, all time based graphs should start at the big bang.

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[-] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 18 points 23 hours ago

This is what a good app does to a MF.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 65 points 1 day ago

Just a FYI, Dan who made Pixelfed also does Loops and a few other Fedi projects in case people want more cool stuff to play with.

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[-] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I tried self hosting Pixelfed but gave up because it wouldn't work. I'm used to Docker containers that are able to just start up by themselves, but the guide didn't work for me. Maybe it's time to try again.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 17 points 22 hours ago

Make sure you use a MariaDB or MySQL database. Despite what the (very incomplete) docu says, Postgres support is broken.

[-] saplyng@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Really? I assumed postgres was the default for basically all open source projects

[-] Shatur@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Happy to see!

I wondering what caused such jump.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Because news broke that Meta lobbied for the TikTok ban. So people are now boycotting Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Since Pixelfed is an Instagram clone and recently launched the app, it has gained a ton of popularity. The timing of the app launch honestly couldn’t have been better, because it gave all of the fleeing Instagram users a nice convenient place to land.

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[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

They released an official all on the app stores

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago

lol i search pixelfed and first result is Rednote, thanks Google play!

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[-] Mechanite@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

I just signed up after seeing an article saying links to the website are being blocked by Instagram (IIRC). I figured it must be worth looking into if they've gone that far

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