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

[therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip]

Still no funny content so disappointed

[qualifiedkitten@lemmy.world]

What instance are you using? How are you accessing it (browser, app, etc.)?

[justenoughducks@feddit.nl]

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.

[thunderlegend@sh.itjust.works]

I hear you. I'm getting tired of the massive amount of posts about trump and elon and politics. I don't see almost any new content about other stuff.

[ekzepp@lemmy.world]

It's quite good, in my opinion. If we had some good bridge to lemmy's posts, it would be even better. Also I've checked and if you like or comment a mastodon post from Pixelfed you'll receive the notification, so, it's something‍️.

[ekzepp@lemmy.world]

Try #meme #memes

[ekzepp@lemmy.world]

(Many groups) of lemmy are full of political content but you can block them and still have a decent amount of contents.

[martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The political stuff is leaking into any other community though. I've already blocked every politics specific and news specific community and a handful other communities and I still get a lot of that. I'm also blocking a few keywords as well, this stuff just gets through regardless of what you do and in no small amount either.

[martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

My script may or may not have picked up the data correctly. I thought I had it working but during writing down the data I noticed that the new 196 blahaj community wasn't showing up in communities from this month and was categorised as 2023.06. After tinkering with the script a bit and rerunning the script it's now correctly categorised as from this month but who knows if there are any other errors. And due to writing this down manually I could have made some mistakes myself too.

New communities by month:

2025.01 - 313
2024.12 - 267
2024.11 - 311
2024.10 - 264
2024.09 - 249
2024.08 - 321
2024.07 - 344
2024.06 - 411
2024.05 - 449
2024.04 - 484
2024.03 - 704
2024.02 - 500
2024.01 - 422

New communities this month by instance: (potential typos) (I just pasted it into the lemmy ui only to realise it doesn't have a monofont ;-;)

lemmy.world - sixy-nice
lemm.ee - 27
lemmynsfw.com - 23
lemmy.org - 21
lemmy.blahaj.zone - 18
lemmy.dbzer0.com - 12
sh.itjust.works - 10
realbitcoin.cash - 9
lemmy.ml - 8
lemmy.sdf.org - 6
lemmy.zip - 6
discuss.tchncs.de - 5
literature.cafe - 5
ani.social - 4
feddit.org - 4
jlai.lu - 4
lemmy.ca - 4
lemmy.lqx.net - 4
redlemmy.com - 4
slrpnk.net - 4
sopuli.xyz - 4
discuss.online - 3
lemmy.today - 3
dubvee.org - 2
feddit.it - 2
feddit.uk - 2
lemmy.cafe - 2
lemmy.spronkus.xyz - 2
lemmyusa.com - 2
szmer.info - 2
zerobytes.monster - 2
discuss.jacen.moe - 1
fasheng.ing - 1
feddit.dk - 1
feddit.nl - 1
g00n.cloud - 1
hackertalks.com - 1
hexbear.net - 1
info.prou.be - 1
lemmings.world - 1
lemmy.amxl.com - 1
lemmy.chrisco.me - 1
lemmy.eco.br - 1
lemmy.studio - 1
lemmy.wtf - 1
lemmygrad.ml - 1
lemuria.es - 1
mander.xyz - 1
midwest.social - 1
monero.town - 1
pawb.social - 1
ponder.cat - 1
programming.dev - 1
r.nf - 1
real.lemmy.fan - 1
reddthat.com - 1
thelemmy.club - 1
ttrpg.network - 1
vegantheoryclub.org - 1
walledgarden.xyz - 1
0xdd.org.ru - 1

Top 15 most popular (subscribers) new communities created this month: (excluding nsfw ofc)

[email protected] - 1.77k
[email protected] - 544
[email protected] - 346
[email protected] - 265
[email protected] - 229
[email protected] - 193
[email protected] - 184
[email protected] - 183
[email protected] - 151
[email protected] - 124
[email protected] - 123
[email protected] - 121
[email protected] - 119
[email protected] - 118
[email protected] - 112

[blastboomstrice@mander.xyz]

Oh wow, thanks for putting it into perspective! Those are very interesting stats:)

(Also lol, apparently not that many more communities are being created)

[martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

My script had batch processing of the data with the batch sizes being set to 200. With that the result of communities for this month I was getting was 125. After setting the batch size to 1 making it process each community separately it changed to 313 so who knows if there are any other problems with the script.

[mubelotix@jlai.lu]

Maybe you could try banning words like "elon" or "trump" if you feel overwhelmed. Some apps have this feature

[zaphod@sopuli.xyz]

Lemmy once had a massive influx of new users, a lot left again and monthly active users has remained somewhat constant for a long time now. Let's wait and see how many people actually stay on PixelFed.

[breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca]

I think it was more that he wanted to open source the app but had built it while he was learning so it was pretty messy and he felt insecure about it. So he rebuilt the app from scratch and open-sourced it. It just isn't quite at feature parity to the old app yet. Pretty sure dark mode is coming in the next update though.

[bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml]

Need better flagship app tbh. Pixelix is better imo but its 5bucks on playstore and sideloading on my current main phone is a hassle

[thunderlegend@sh.itjust.works]

Gonna try that thanks!

[fossilesque@mander.xyz]

There's an official app now.

[quicky@lemmy.world]

The Discovery section definitely needs work, but the ability to follow hashtags offsets that somewhat. I’ve found loads of great photographers to follow off the back of following hashtags that I’m interested in.

[but_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world]

The mood and anger here is starting to feel like Reddit recently and now I know why

[sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works]

Same problem with Mastodon tbh