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

[kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com]

Relates to what server an account is on and how it affects the experience. Most people don’t want to know/care

[panarab@lemm.ee]

We just need to explain federation to them

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

Hi James Joyce here, what did you all say you were up to?

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn't?

On this topic I just want to point out the microblog format with twitter even BEFORE musk bought it had gotten very cold, harsh and toxic.

As a result the most positive thing you can say about people's feelings about microblogging is that they are bored of it (in terms of it having inspiring potential) even if they use it and like it.

I don't think that is fair to mastodon or microblogging, it is just how the ships happened to sink as they crashed into a reef.

I say this all to emphasize that it is ok for mastodon not to get hit by massive hypecycles. Mastodon is useful and awesome, if people see it is as boring I say let that be a compliment.

Twitter/musk made people REALLY sad about microblogging and it is going to take time for people to get excited about it again like they do for the 'grams and the 'toks.

[match@pawb.social]

that's cool, what's the furry instance

[thcdenton@lemmy.world]

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Haven't really gotten around to watching it yet.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

I miss that era of practical effects so bad.

[match@pawb.social]

is this wild wild west and if not why not

[sortekanin@feddit.dk]

You too? I've had more users sign up this month than for many past months!

[martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Lemmy is full of bad news, hate and toxicity while pixelfed is full of artists and people sharing cool pictures and their passion. Visiting my pixelfed account from 2023 a few days ago set such a contrast with what I see on lemmy that I started using it regularly. It really felt weird to visit such a wholesome place after using lemmy for a long time. Now I use pixelfed to balance out the bad stuff from lemmy for maintaining my mental health and to appreciate the art which is not common on lemmy.

[martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Oooh, I will need to look into the lemmyverse json file to find out what they are.

[pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works]

If it brings more diversity, I’m all for it. If it makes it even more super left psycho Echo chamber-y then it will just be annoying.

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

and it just went on and on trying to placate the inevitable furious white men in the comments section.

I think that's, usually, not necessary. The "going on at length" part, that is. People want to know you're not literally Andrea Dworkin, trying to actively reinforce the toxic AF "women are always victims, men are always perpetrators" narrative etc, but it takes like five words to make that clear.

Complications might arise when you're trying to simultaneously assuage hurt men and misandrists. I fear it's either "'kill all men' is toxic" or "'kill all men' is a valid expression of your anger, let it all out", there's no real space for compromise, there.

[therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip]

Still no funny content so disappointed

[qualifiedkitten@lemmy.world]

What instance are you using? How are you accessing it (browser, app, etc.)?

[justenoughducks@feddit.nl]

Discovery? Interesting thought.

I tried out pixelfed and the pixelix app for the past couple weeks.

The "discovery" page on the official app is worse than useless. It shows almost nobody with over 10 followers, highlighting one person with 50-100 followers, then shows "popular on the fediverse" which are thumbnails of posts of the people it just recommended. It always recommends at least 5 of the same people day after day, week after week.

The official app can't even show a global feed so it is literally impossible to discover new people unless you know their name and specifically search for them, or they are recommended by luck on the discover page (of which there are multiple repeats per day)

Pixelix at least allows you to view a global feed though. Definitely a better experience, but Lemmy discovery is not any worse than that.

[thunderlegend@sh.itjust.works]

I hear you. I'm getting tired of the massive amount of posts about trump and elon and politics. I don't see almost any new content about other stuff.

[ekzepp@lemmy.world]

It's quite good, in my opinion. If we had some good bridge to lemmy's posts, it would be even better. Also I've checked and if you like or comment a mastodon post from Pixelfed you'll receive the notification, so, it's something‍️.

[ekzepp@lemmy.world]

Try #meme #memes