Pixelfed ebbing
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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
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Ah ok, thanks!
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For lots of people it'll be less confusing. They open their app store and search for this Pixelfed they've heard of and find an official app. That's what they expect.
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I use Impressia for Pixelfed. It’s pretty good.
