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

[chickenf622@sh.itjust.works]

I believe it's supposed to be a fediverse version of Instagram. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong

[satanclaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I am here to not correct you.

[morrowind@lemmy.ml]

It can but you can't follow users from Lemmy, same issue as mastodon

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

I thought everyone was dogs using the internet while the humans are at work.

[quill7513@slrpnk.net]

Well then I guess we must sniff butts

[dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world]

I could see posts and follow users and tags, but couldn't make any posts myself and have pretty much given up now.

[p4ulin_kbana@lemmy.eco.br]

Thank you Santa

[p4ulin_kbana@lemmy.eco.br]

"We can't want"? Do you mean "wait"?

[p4ulin_kbana@lemmy.eco.br]

Absolutely agree with this.

It's hard to discover something new, sometimes.

[p4ulin_kbana@lemmy.eco.br]

I don't think Mastodon was really competing with Bluesky. Bluesky is way ahead while Fediverse fanboys thought people would somehow just learn to use Mastodon. (while they wouldn't shut up about Bluesky)

[p4ulin_kbana@lemmy.eco.br]

"tech bro free social media"

[magnus919@lemmy.brandyapple.com]

I really wish it were more straightforward to deploy. It would be great to see many more instances popping up.

[westyvw@lemm.ee]

I joined an instance, I discovered some people who posted some cool pictures and so I added them to my feed.

Maybe try dropping the instance you started with?

I gotta say I am rather meh about it, but that isn't pixelfeeds fault. I just dont really care to see people posting random shit online.

But I gotta try so I can explain it to people who do because so many businesses (usually small artists) feel they can't leave Instagram because they don't know where else to market, and their followers won't leave because the business is there.

I can't recommend change without experiencing it so I can help support it.

[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.