Pixelfed ebbing
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That sounds lovely but it's not been my experience of using social media (except Facebook). I'm not suggesting my experience is normal, or that yours is. I genuinely don't know.
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I couldn't care less about what's happening in the lives of celebrities or companies, or the unsupported political opinions of random strangers, but I guess I'm a weirdo in that way.
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Pixelfed has always been fully opensource (and Libre) and there has been fully open source clients, like Pixeldroid, for a long time. The new iPhone app which used the name of the network made things confusing unfortunately.
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Ah, right, I mistook it for Loops!
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I tend to use things like Pixelfed to find people interested in the same hobbies. Mastodon I use more for general nerding out.
I wasn't intending to criticise your use-case. I don't know what normal usage patterns look like.
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Yeah I wasn't trying to accuse you of that, just pointing out why I don't care much for these types of platforms in general.
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What caused the jump in the first place? I only just opened an account myself because the folks who run my home instance lemmy.ca started up pixelfed.ca about a week ago and I decided to check it out.
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I tried it out after the Instagram censorship and while I haven't been back to Instagram, I also gave up on Pixelfed the 4th time I had to log in.
Is there a dark mode yet??
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Happened to Lemmy 2 years ago, but there's still more than enough of you ladies and gents to keep it as my only social media app
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the sole dev of both of these apps doesn’t think he needs any help and refuses to open source them.
Oof, that sucks. Seems like someone else needs to create an open source alternative app. The platforms themselves are libre software, right? I couldn't find a lot for loops on that, but Pixelfed itself seems to be.
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All things considered, it's not yet falling off as quickly as I would have expected, maybe my memory is playing tricks on me, but I seem to remember Lemmy had a harder crash after the first reddit exodus, as did mastodon several times, when people fled xitter.
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So far no dark mode yet
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Instagram is mostly influencer driven. The lack of which will get idolaters bored of pixelfed and move back to the zucks.
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I’ve enjoyed Pixelfed a lot more than I thought I would. I feel like the same principle applies to follow tags that you are interested in to make sure you feed has content that interests you. A lot of the same content surfaces on both my mastodon and Pixelfed accounts as I follow the same hashtags on both. I did discover a few accounts on Pixelfed that I wouldn’t have if I just stayed on Mastodon though.
My biggest gripes with Pixelfed is that the app sucks. And the content I’d be most interested in seeing (pictures of my friends and family) aren’t on there. Probably because of reason 1 and because meta platforms aren’t as a big of pain point for them as they are for me
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I'll wait it out, then. I'd love to use it for obvious reasons
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Looks pretty normal. Pixelfed has been hyped. So a bunch of people try it out for a short while, but leave again. some stay.
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The official Pixelfed app released and I also think the whole TikTok ban had something to do with it.
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I seem to remember Lemmy had a harder crash
iirc during the r$ddit API debacle, Lemmy went from 1000 MAUs (40 MAU for kbin) to a peak of around 70k then down to around 38k MAUs (lemmy + kbin). However I think this was only counting posts and comments as "activity", I think it was around March 2024 they started counting up/downvotes as well and the MAUs stabilized in the lower 40ks for the rest of the year and is now slowly rising.
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I use firefox to log into pixelfed, dark mode works on that. (Dark Mode Reader extension fwiw). haven't tried it on firefox android tho.
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Almost all social apps are about algorithmic feed suggesting content from people you don't know. Facebook is one of the few app that are still about personal connection. I can't remember a single person i interacted with usernames on apps like lemmy
