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

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

It’s like Reddit and you gotta filter out the bullshit. Adding Elon, Musk, Trump, and RFK to my block list improved my mental health quite a bit. Hopefully if it’s egregious enough it will slip through and I won’t be blind sided by some terrible thing they’re doing. That’s the only downside.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

More users isn't necessarily good.

Every time there's an influx from whatever shit storm we retain about 20%.

[carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

oooh, yea that’s a good point

and, I mean, the app was in beta, sudden changes are to be expected

but still, I feel like the app was so much better before… its kinda frustrating

[pseudo@jlai.lu]

You can post from PixelFed into Lemmy but you won't see replies and that's too bad.

[gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de]

well, i'm against individual workarounds for common problems, there should be common solutions.

otherwise you just start alienating 99% of the users who won't put in the effort to install an extra app just to get that filtering, or if using the web interface on mobile, it's just not possible.

[rickywars@lemmy.ca]

Well it doesn't seem like there's been another Reddit exodus, especially from looking at the user numbers for Lemmy. There hasn't been a big screwup lately like with Meta or Twitter (but I think Bluesky is absorbing the Twitter refugees currently).

[clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world]

? Why's that not good?

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Well on Lemmy the quality of content dropped. Low effort posts started becoming normalized. Lots of people entered who dont know what the Downvote button is for.

[lawnman23@lemmy.world]

https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Wut. That doesn't sound secure

[emperor@feddit.uk]

Bluesky is doing well though.

[biofaust@lemmy.world]

Oh thanks for giving me a proper term to use when pointing at my biggest problem with the Fediverse.

Has it ever been discussed by any developers? Is it technically possible for ActivityPub? Would the costs be exorbitant?

[teohhanhui@lemmy.world]

You can just open the Pixelfed links using your Mastodon instance.

[clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world]

Well, I'm glad you like it some much you want to preserve it. Best of luck.

[emperor@feddit.uk]

Yeah, we usually tick along at 1 or 2 sign-ups a day, 7 days ago that went to 10 and has settled back to 3 or 4.

I don't know if they are coming directly from Pixelfed but there were a few high profile posts about the Fediverse over at The Bad Place, so, following the example of @[email protected], a few of us jumped in to do some missionary work/help man the lifeboats.

[spookex@lemmy.world]

The problem is that Lemmy isn't at the point where I can browse it like I do on Reddit.

After the API thing killed my main reddit app, I just lurk on like 4 1 million+ user sports/video game/military meme subreddits and check on them every 1h/30min to see 10 new posts or any important news that happened. I check r/all maybe like once every few months.

The relevant lemmys just aren't that active or don't have low-effort post rules, so I'm kind of stuck browsing the front page of Lemmy if I want to see more than 10 posts per day

[kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com]

There are different options to solve this. The current “solve” is to dump everyone on one big server. Mastodon.social, lemmy.world, etc.

Another solution might be a button that sends you to a random top10 instance. Might work for mastodon but lemmy servers defederate like hell and some of the biggest instances are .ml, hexbear, etc.

XMPP has this tiered list https://providers.xmpp.net/ but it’s the same problem of expecting users to care what a server is

I don’t have solution, and if you do then I’m not the person you should be telling

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

Bluesky has a serious marketing budget and a virtual "get out of having to back up unrealistic promises" pass for tech in interviews (everyone just accepts they are going to decentralize when it makes zero sense from a business perspective).

[pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works]

Have we proven this?

[raouldook@lemmy.world]

Pixelix is on FDroid for free