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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 377 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 214 points 5 months ago (5 children)

People like looking at photos of food and cats more than being railed for having "incorrect* political viewpoints? (/s for anyone not picking up on that btw:-P)

[–] simple@lemm.ee 66 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (48 children)

I literally just got called a snowflake in another thread for saying people should stop posting US politics in general communities. People still wonder why Lemmy has a bad reputation even in the entire Fediverse... Sometimes I wonder why I still bother here.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 23 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, that's definitely a shame. Let's see how it goes, but I'm about to create a !usdefaultism somewhere just to list those occurrences

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (11 children)
[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Less than half, that actually surprises me. I honestly assume most people I meet online are Yanks.

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[–] occultist8128 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i just hate the way most people here assume everyone is coming from US smh

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Its nice right now...Hope it stays.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 5 months ago

Kick ass! I'm all for more Fediverse stuff getting popular, and if this has any competition, just means more features will be added across all of them.

[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 5 months ago

Hell yeah! 2025 is the year of the ~~linux~~ Fediverse ~~desktop~~!

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 69 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

If you look at monthly active users instead of total users, Pixelfed is a strong 2nd place.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (18 children)

What are you guys posting pictures of over on pixelfed? What's goin' on over there that's so popular? Is it more politics, and social issues? Or is it cats?

[–] m_f@discuss.online 51 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

There's a sudden influx of users from instagram and tiktok and whatnot because of the ban, zuckerberg fellating Trump, and all of that stuff going on. So the answer to "What's getting posted?" is "everything"

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

that user name logo should be a war crime

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[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Crazy enough. People are posting what they were posting on instagram.

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago

I dunno, I only follow capybarabot.

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 18 points 5 months ago

ikr lemmy has a little over 40k active users. If you look at the first data point just as the slope starts to rise, that's where lemmy is by comparison:

Total users is pretty meaningless bc it includes things like users who left and will never return, and bot accounts.

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 63 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this the fediverse's answer to Instagram?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 19 points 5 months ago

Yes and the same developer does Loops, the TikTok "equivalent"

Not sure when he sleeps

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 55 points 5 months ago (5 children)

fuck it, I tried mastodon, I'll give pixelfed a try too.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My feed on Pixelfed is way better the second week, now that I've followed a couple dozen folks and put some posts out there.

And pro tip: Post and tag a cute picture of your pet and people will see your account.

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

They need some starter packs like BlueSky because all I’m seeing are some art photography highly likely ai generated - and I have no idea where to find content that has any value. On searching the hashtags I’m getting mastodon posts containing links that can’t be clicked.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

Is there any integration with Lemmy? Cross promotion would be awesome, and something big tech can’t actually do.

I am but a humble end user using the web interface, but I do know mastodon comments can somehow show up on Lemmy.

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 35 points 5 months ago

Hello from Mastodon.

All of these "talk" ActivityPub so Pixelfed should already integrate in some form with Lemmy.

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was curious what the other apps were, found the list: https://fedidb.org/software

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[–] Toldry@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Does anyone have recommendations who to follow on pixelfed?

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Yeah dude me obviously. @mayur@pixelfed.social

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yesterday I revived my old Pixelfed account, and I have set myself a challenge, upload one photo every day for a month.

I have plenty of photos from the last decade to pick from

I don't know if this will mean that my account will be active in the long run, but I'll give it an honest try.

I posted this earlier in the thread:

https://pxlmo.com/p/stoy/787786012092436062

@stoy@pxlmo.com

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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 months ago

Good for pixelfed

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 21 points 5 months ago
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not surprising. As long as they can afford the servers, it will probably get to Mastadon levels.

Lemmy is a replacement for reddit, and reddit was always much smaller than Instagram.

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[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago (5 children)

People share photos and videos all the time on mastodon. What is the difference with pixelfed?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Everything on Fedi is just different interfaces and perf from the user perspective.

People want to continue to use something close to Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter but not be locked to their enshitified companies who decide what they get to see.

Many that come over find out there's no algorithm and that they have to follow people to get any content, they find they miss the doom scroll and go straight back.

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Every one of these federated apps needs a strong meme feed. Just an endless stream of shitposts and funny content. Doesn't need to be doomscrolling, just needs to be a constantly available source of low effort junk food content

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[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Better UI and a better discover page mainly. Plus it's gotten a lot of organic advertising just from luck and people talking about it, and no obvious competitor like Bluesky

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

... which is absolutely understandable considering how lemmy is most of the time,

it's politics non-stop, one bad news after another, everyone is quick to bash somebody as either a nazi or a tankie or something else.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It is simple and free of bloat. I like it much better than that youtube shorts analog I can't remember the name of.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Yeah but pixelfed is coming out with loops, it's been on beta for awhile, that is basically Tik Tok with no ads or government/big tech ownership. I personally feel like that could have taken a giant chunk of the Tik Tok users and kept them from having to learn to read ideograms to access content they wanted. I don't personally use that format of social media but I tried it on Android and it looks just like Tik Tok looked that I have seen on others devices.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Everything helps.

No corporations in social media. No venture capital in social media.

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