You can see it if you check https://fedidb.org/. Monthly active users have gone from just a hair under one million to somewhere around 1.4 million and still growing. How do we think this will go? How do we feel about this influx of new users? Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn’t?
I feel like I didn’t really recognize having different “platforms” like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc would give multiple opportunities for the fediverse to make a “first” impression with people.
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The mood and anger here is starting to feel like Reddit recently and now I know why
Well it doesn’t seem like there’s been another Reddit exodus, especially from looking at the user numbers for Lemmy. There hasn’t been a big screwup lately like with Meta or Twitter (but I think Bluesky is absorbing the Twitter refugees currently).
Excited. Anyone know if/when their gonna add dark mode?
We feel good.
Great
I wonder how many of those users are the same person with multiple accounts on different platforms.
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I mean, there’s limited content, and Lemmy hasn’t attracted the same kind of personality as modern Reddit. It makes total sense that things would be upvoted quickly, but comments would be sparse or short.
People patted themselves on the back when they showed up for being “old reddit” and “power users”, but most of us were just cranky phone users who didn’t want to use the official app. Lemmy users are not the boistrous, verbose philosophers people wanted to believe they were.
We’re scrollers, sitting on the toilet.
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We can’t want the Fediverse to get bigger but be scared of normies when it does. I say welcome in! We should be mindful to listen to the new recruits, because their feedback is the most unbiased.
“We can’t want”? Do you mean “wait”?
No; “We can’t want X but be Y” is well-formed, like with any other verbs (eg. “We can’t swim but stay dry.”). It does sound more confusing, but the structure is the same. It means we can’t “want X” and “be Y” at the same time. I hope that explanation makes sense.
Thank you
No problem :)
How do I feel?
I was following my Lemmy rule and hunting out smaller instances rather than pile into the biggest one.
tried 4 separate smaller instance sign ups and never got a single one of them to work and send me a verification email, so I kinda gave up…Fine with me.
Nothing works on pixelfee for me. Half the photos are just black. It shows an account has a lot of posts, but I don’t see anything. Searches being up results but selecting one of those results produces zero results.
How are y’all getting pixelfed to work?
What instance are you using? How are you accessing it (browser, app, etc.)?
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.
I could see posts and follow users and tags, but couldn’t make any posts myself and have pretty much given up now.
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Need better flagship app tbh. Pixelix is better imo but its 5bucks on playstore and sideloading on my current main phone is a hassle :/
Pixelix is on FDroid for free
There’s an official app now.
More users isn’t necessarily good.
Every time there’s an influx from whatever shit storm we retain about 20%.
? Why’s that not good?
There’s a lot of gatekeepers here who actively sabotage the project to keep it niche.
Some examples of active sabotage?
You can just scroll through the comments here, and see some examples.
2 separate unrelated statements.
Well on Lemmy the quality of content dropped. Low effort posts started becoming normalized. Lots of people entered who dont know what the Downvote button is for.
Well, I’m glad you like it some much you want to preserve it. Best of luck.
“when there were 0 users, the site was perfect”
Great 👍
It’s barely news worthy. Small mostly unknown service gains 400,000 new accounts. Ok. 400k.
Instagram apperently has 4 BILLION accounts, with 143 MILLION monthly users.
400K sounds great, until you compare it to the pie. It went from less then 1% to less than 1%.
Growth is great and all, but since it’s January, I’d rather see a retrospective of where they stood on Jan 1st 2024, and where they stood on Jan 1st 2025. With a detailed analysis on all the fluctuations (which at this point I would assume to be nothing but upwards) but also, what caused each event.
But hearing a single month, with an influx of 400k seems like a non-story, and won’t be interesting until Jan 2026 when we get the 2025 retrospective. And we put into context that this was when meta decided to go all political, and ban searches for “democrats”, and the whole drama with tiktok.
Agreed, tho if they grew too fast the pixelfed infrastructure would just die…
Would the infrastructure die? Or would it just cap at a certain limit and lose potential sign ups?
Great question. Ideally someone trying to sign up for pixelfed.social say would be automatically shunted over to another instance…
