Editing to let people know that I will be blocking anyone who feels the need to tell me why this graph is inaccurate. I truly don’t care, but feel free to chime in with your useless take and land a spot on my block list! 🙂
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At this rate, their user base will be larger than atoms are in the universe
Well atoms are pretty small so I’m guessing the user base is already bigger than them.
And atoms are full of empty space, there like 99.9999% empty.
Compress that down for space savings and we could make a huge dent.
I wish they would put the official app on F-Droid. I use PixelDroid, but it’d still be nice to try.
Apparently the official app has a few dependencies that themselves depend on Google Play services, hence being blocked for F-droid inclusion.
Anyone know what services these are?
Pixelix just showed up on F-Droid two days ago, the dev open-sourced their code just recently. I find it to be a “better” (subjective :) ) client than PixelDroid after testing it for a bit. $0.02 to any readers. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.daniebeler.pfpixelix/
It has dark mode, btw.
the official app is much slower and less polished than PixelDroid and Pixelix.
they do have their own F-droid repo, though https://fdroid.pixelfed.net/fdroid/repo
I used Obtainium to get it
What are you supposed to put in the “server url” field in Pixelix? I put the instance I have an account on, because I don’t have any other information that would make sense to put there, but nothing happens when I tap the arrow.
Also, what the fuck, fediverse. It’s exactly this kind of bullshit that’s why nobody joins you. Fix it for Christ’s sake. Something this unintuitive doesn’t even belong in a beta build. If I was a paid instagram plant making this app to frustrate people into going back to instagram, this is the splash screen I’d use. Stop making it impossible to recommend you in good faith to people I like.
I don’t know about that app specifically, but I know some fediverse apps do not have all instances in their directory. For example, fedilab doesn’t have friendica.world. I would suggest hunting around for an app that supports your instance, but I agree, it is a dumb problem. What is the point of being able to join whatever instance you want if it is not listed on the app?
The heard “someday” there will be Groups…
Seems the trend continued in the days after you posted this graph.
I’d like to point out that a similar thing happened to Lemmy back when the Reddit exodus happened. We have to keep in mind that growth might happen suddenly. But it doesn’t necessarily continue indefinitely. And a large chunk of users are likely not to stay. But with this said, it’s a good thing. We need independent platforms. Now more than ever.
Gotta have an official app, that’s the only reason I made an account and posted anything.
The official app had been available for everyone in beta for months, and it came out of beta just a few days ago.
Maybe try looking stuff up before stating dumb shit.
Beta doesn’t mean publicly ready. I knew about it and didn’t use it on purpose. Obviously the data shows I wasn’t the only one.
Maybe try critically thinking before stating dumb shit.
Pretty sure the official app has been in testing for a while. And I feel like I heard recently it’s releasing a stable build.
In case I’m wrong though, there’s always PixelDroid and the recently released Pixelix.
Also, like most fediverse apps, the first-party, official apps are always very basic and more of a proof-of-concept kind of thing. In most cases you’d be better served with third-party apps.
For other nerds that absolutely hate dishonest and biased graphs, I present the normalized data. Wow. What a vertical line. 🤦♀️
Exactly my first thought seeing this graph.
its the federation effect in action. I expect pixel fed to get a slow trickle of new users as legacy social media cages and milks its current users for ads.
Despite the misleading graph from OP, the slow uptick seems to be common with federated social media because there’s little incentive to make viral posts to sell ads.
Just a FYI, Dan who made Pixelfed also does Loops and a few other Fedi projects in case people want more cool stuff to play with.
What is the general outlook on others helping him build them out? I would hate to see tons of the energy dissipate because it was one guy trying his damnedest to out compete tech companies on two fronts.
I’m not that sure on what kind of crew he may or may not have.
looks like … the climate has changed
I tried self hosting Pixelfed but gave up because it wouldn’t work. I’m used to Docker containers that are able to just start up by themselves, but the guide didn’t work for me. Maybe it’s time to try again.
Make sure you use a MariaDB or MySQL database. Despite what the (very incomplete) docu says, Postgres support is broken.
Really? I assumed postgres was the default for basically all open source projects
Hey man, I don’t care about your graph but can you just block me anyway? Cheers! 🙂
Graph
I’m not sure the graph is accurate.
I don’t really use Instagram, but I might give Pixelfed a try. Does anyone know if it’s also a left-wing echo chamber like Lemmy?
Lemmy is a left wing echo-chamber? I thought it was a Linux wing echo chamber?
It’s both!
tomato patato
God I hope so.
I don’t need a bunch of bigoted shit echoing around in there with us.
You don’t like echo but you on a leftist echo chamber site, smh. You just don’t like echo that doesn’t fit your agenda.
Fucking Deep insights from someone who can’t fully read a reply that’s like 10 words long.
Great job chucklefuck
What can I say - I do be insightful like that :P
I’ve mostly seen pictures of landscapes and animals, so not as much
That’s cool.
