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

[neatobuilds@lemmy.today]

I created a mastodon account a few years ago and I log in every once in a while but I really have no idea how to use it haha, it just keeps updating a bunch of posts and I don't know how to make it stop

[xapr@lemmy.sdf.org]

This is a good point. I'm pretty sure that if you're active on Lemmy, PixelFed, Mastodon, or even have multiple active accounts on multiple instances of each of those (like a lot of people do), each single one of those would count as a separate active user. I really can't think of any way that this wouldn't be the case, because how would the statistics servers know that your the same person?

[flashmobofone@lemmy.world]

That's probably the global feed, which yes, moves super-fast. I found that annoying at first too.

There's a checkbox to turn off auto-scroll in settings, and it's got an appropriate name: Slow Mode.

[hominy_hank@lemmy.world]

Nothing works on pixelfee for me. Half the photos are just black. It shows an account has a lot of posts, but I don't see anything. Searches being up results but selecting one of those results produces zero results.

How are y'all getting pixelfed to work?

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

It's nice to see. I'd compare it to back when Lemmy was in the same situation and tens of thousands of users came from Reddit to Lemmy over night.

[carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

yup… (at least in the stable channel)

what’s most infuriating is that it used to have it but at some point they redesigned the app and made it worse…?

you don’t have to imitate instagram that much, dansup

[gooberear@lemmy.wtf]

I know I can Kagi or duckduckgo it or whatever you people are using these days, but what is PixelFed and what's it an alternative to? News aggregators aside, I don't social media so I'm not sure if it's a tiktok or instagram or whatsapp or faceplace.

[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.