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

[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

[fedizen@lemmy.world]

"when there were 0 users, the site was perfect"

[fedizen@lemmy.world]

Mastodon can view I, I think all fediverse posts if you are inclined to make that happen.

[drapermache@lemmy.world]

I'm excited. I'm one of those users, but I haven't used it much because 8 can't find followers. To be fair, I never used Instagram. I like the fediverse, I see about the same article get sent through other centralized communities other than reddit (tildes, hacker news, etc), but I enjoy the community discussion the best around here.

[lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.world]

Yeah, I never used Instagram or Twitter so getting started on Pixelfed or Mastodon seems a bit daughnting for me. But I assume it you like platforms like that, you just search out a few people you enjoy and then add more from their content and others do the same and eventually it'll all click into what people had in those corporate owned and controlled products.

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

There’s a lot of gatekeepers here who actively sabotage the project to keep it niche.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

2 separate unrelated statements.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

Some examples of active sabotage?

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

You can just scroll through the comments here, and see some examples.

[rivenskye@lemm.ee]

Great

[leadore@lemmy.world]

Yes, you can follow a pixelfed account from your mastodon account and see their posts in your feed. Paste the url of their page into your mastodon search to bring up their profile, then you can view their posts and/or follow them.

[leadore@lemmy.world]

We feel good.

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

This is very true unfortunately. Maybe eventually but my fear is that when Lemmy gets that big it turns into Reddit

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Fine with me.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn’t?

Yes. The interface is good and familiar. The majority of the traffic is on one namespace where discoverability is good. Because of the nature of the medium, getting started with no algorithm is a lot easier to stomach than just looking at what your local people have to say.

This is not to bash Mastodon, but they need that algo, which is why Bluesky is hoovering up users. Also, their UI, depending on the server is more tweetdeckish, which might scare off a lot of casuals.

Also, to start with, all the journalists FLOODED info, Mastodon, without any algo; you just got a hundred wordsmiths screaming past each other and they all immediately followed each other, so you couldn't just find people like Jeff Jarvis, you got to see everyone he had a professional experience of which is WAY more than anyone is prepared to read

[gift_of_gab@lemmy.world]

People want to know you’re not literally ... 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.

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/face in hands

[katana314@lemmy.world]

Yeah, but that's not browsing; that's targeting a specific account you want to view more of.

[merthyr1831@lemmy.ml]

Bluesky doesnt have an algorithm for its discover feed (the default), or at least it didn't used to have one, but provides an API for building your own feeds which lets you do whatever you like.

Bluesky's big growth was from the fact it was, like PF, easy to use and easy to navigate, and all the content was on one namespace.

Lemmy is an outlier imo. You can interact and repost and find content on different instances easily. Mastodon made following feeds from different instances nearly impossible which turned me off it permanently even if I believe in its value over Bluesky.