PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?
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"tech bro free social media"
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I really wish it were more straightforward to deploy. It would be great to see many more instances popping up.
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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.
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We just need to explain federation to them
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Hi James Joyce here, what did you all say you were up to?
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Haven't really gotten around to watching it yet.
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I miss that era of practical effects so bad.
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is this wild wild west and if not why not
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You too? I've had more users sign up this month than for many past months!
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Lemmy is full of bad news, hate and toxicity while pixelfed is full of artists and people sharing cool pictures and their passion. Visiting my pixelfed account from 2023 a few days ago set such a contrast with what I see on lemmy that I started using it regularly. It really felt weird to visit such a wholesome place after using lemmy for a long time. Now I use pixelfed to balance out the bad stuff from lemmy for maintaining my mental health and to appreciate the art which is not common on lemmy.
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Oooh, I will need to look into the lemmyverse json file to find out what they are.
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If it brings more diversity, I’m all for it. If it makes it even more super left psycho Echo chamber-y then it will just be annoying.
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Still no funny content so disappointed
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Discovery? Interesting thought.
I tried out pixelfed and the pixelix app for the past couple weeks.
The "discovery" page on the official app is worse than useless. It shows almost nobody with over 10 followers, highlighting one person with 50-100 followers, then shows "popular on the fediverse" which are thumbnails of posts of the people it just recommended. It always recommends at least 5 of the same people day after day, week after week.
The official app can't even show a global feed so it is literally impossible to discover new people unless you know their name and specifically search for them, or they are recommended by luck on the discover page (of which there are multiple repeats per day)
Pixelix at least allows you to view a global feed though. Definitely a better experience, but Lemmy discovery is not any worse than that.
