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

[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.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Bluesky doesnt have an algorithm for its discover feed

For not having one, my Discover feed was pretty dead on. Maybe just luck or maybe it was the right time for the right facebook influx.

Lemmy is an outlier

Lemmy is damn close to Reddit's mental design, but instead of 27 different subs for news on one place, there are 2-3 different places that have a news sub. news@here and news@there isn't hard to grasp, I think the platform works remarkably well.

[bufalo1973@lemm.ee]

That's one thing that should be upgraded. There has to be a way to link your accounts in Lemmy, PixelFed, Mastodon, ... so "follow" becomes "follow with" and choose the service.

[leadore@lemmy.world]

Oh, to browse all the posts rather than just one account's, go to https://pixelfed.social/web/explore which should show pretty much everything. (that's the main server with the most users by far, and any other PF servers are federated with it so most of theirs should show up there as well)

[breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca]

Agreed. It immediately went from being maybe the best app in the Fediverse to the 3rd best for its own service. I stopped using Pixelfed altogether until Pixelix got good enough to be a replacement.

I honestly don't understand how getting the new app to feature parity with the old wasn't maximum priority. It at least seems like it's going to get there pretty soon.

[leadore@lemmy.world]

There is something like that on most Mastodon pages where if you are viewing it just in your browser rather than from within your mastodon account, you can click Follow and it will ask for the server name you want to follow it from, so you have to enter your server name, then it will auto-open it in your Mastodon account for you.

I don't know that there's much more anyone could do than that, since any given server you are viewing has no idea what various fedi accounts you may have. That's kind of what "decentralized" means--there's no central database keeping track of all your accounts.

[hominy_hank@lemmy.world]

Pixelfed.social

Using the app. It doesn't even load for me on browser. I am assuming it doesn't work on browser because of something I got in unblock because it loads on mobile browser but it's very unresponsive on mobile browser for me.

[john89@lemmy.ca]

Looks like pixelfed is just for pictures.

Seems like it's the instagram to mastadon's twitter.