Pixelfed's first plateau in progress
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Seems pretty close to Instagram
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I think you're on to something.
I also think there's a difference in where the network effect kicks in for different types of social media. IMHO, Lemmy has just enough activity to not feel empty, and even then I wish there was more comments to interact with and more niche communities. With Pixelfed, I feel like as long as there's enough interesting posts it makes sense for people to visit regularly.
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Pixelfed is definitely a good example of "its what you make it".
Try searching for and following some hashtags that you're interested in. I have an awesome home feed made up of art, design and photography hashtags and artists.
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You're 100% right about that. I've never ran out of nice posts to look at on Pixelfed. I think the medium & format is a lot less addictive and a lot more relaxing/positive, which might help to explain it.
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user retention
yeah, hard to tell.... Lemmy peaked a little under 70k MAUs and is around 45k now... if pixelfed peaks at 300k it's reasonable to think it levels at 200k (i.e. a hundredfold increase from a month ago).
ofc every situation is different... e.g. pixelfed has tighter Mastodon integration (pro) but may depend more on a network effect (con). also iirc the lemmy MAU count methodology shifted at some point, from post/comment to post/comment/upvote/downvote which is a confound for the lemmy dropoff count...
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Well, it is a photo sharing platform.
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o yeah thanks!
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I love art so it's very much for me. I can see how it wouldn't seem attractive to people that aren't into that type of stuff though.
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Sounds like instagram or imgur?
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The Pixelfed app isn’t very good right now compared to instagram was when it wasn’t terrible. Hope that Dan hires an actual UX designer to update the app with his kickstarter money. And that he can integrate loops with it as well.
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Is it like an alt to instagram?
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The fediverse has had a very low retention rate. My bet is that after a year MAU will come down to 60k. That is if meta doesn't embroil itself in another controversy.
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Yes a fediverse version of Instagram. It relies on the activity pub protocol under the hood. Which makes it possible for example to follow like and comment to a pixelfed account from a mastodon account if you have one.
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The old Instagram before they added the video stuff. Pretty much a 1:1 clone of that I was told (I was never on Instagram so
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Good we need to be sustainable not be like other social media.
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Idk, Lemmy also inreased it's userbase by a factor of 30, mainly from a single event. It had like 1,500 MAU before summer 2023 and now we're at 45k. So I'd say it could be a bit more than your estimate.I kinda agree though, it'll stabilize at a lower number than during a hype period. And I hope we've learned from the past and drama that happened.
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Long and short... Pretty much all the big tech heads sat in the front at trumps innaugeration, including Zuck. Shortly afterwards there were a bunch of coincidental "bugs" of things like, all results being hidden when searching for democrats and LGBT, and people being set to follow trump.
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That’s exactly me as well. Tried it, looked at random people’s cats and dogs. Not for me.
I think that's kind of the challange we've got with regards to making social media from a nerds perspective. We're a bunch of nerds that don't understand the appeal of the things we want to make alternatives to, and wouldn't be interested in using them even if they weren't run by horrible evil tech corporations.
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Frankly, whatever secret sauce it is that makes social media popular is also what drives them to be such shit and be so shit for society. I like Lemmy way more than I like Reddit, and even though I have to go back to Reddit from time to time to fill the needs of my niche interests (which can get no traction where there are not mobs of participants in the greater whole) I never ever look at my interactions there and go "I wish Lemmy was more like this."
It's a conundrum.
