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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[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Gotta have an official app, that’s the only reason I made an account and posted anything.

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

And those are just the instances that show up. Nice!

[+] westyvw@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] korendian@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Lemmy is unique on the fediverse, in that it has communities that you can subscribe to. The closest equivalent is community groups on Friendica. Pixelfed is more similar to Mastodon in that you can follow individual accounts, or hashtags/search terms, which is how you subscribe to different content in your feed. For example, I follow #catsofmastodon and see all posts tagged with that in my feed. Hashtagging your posts is very important if you want it to be seen. Lemmy is more oriented towards discussions, which is why communities make more sense in this context than on Pixelfed or Mastodon.

[–] mastazi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, it's the most confusing part, if you want to discover Pixelfed accounts from other servers, you have to go to another server's home page, then click on "Explore" which will show you popular posts by that server's users. I have done this and now I follow a bunch of accounts from other servers, but the process is very convoluted and the average user would not bother I guess.

The web version of Pixelfed does have a "Global Feed" page but that's 99% Mastodon posts because the "Global Feed" is actually global relative to the whole Fediverse.

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Hey man, I don't care about your graph but can you just block me anyway? Cheers! 🙂

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

what the fuck is a pixelfed

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 4 months ago

325,000 users? Had no idea.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 6 points 4 months ago (8 children)

does anyone know why this sudden uptick?

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Streisand effect. There's a news story going around about Meta intentionally deleting links to Pixelfed: https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/

I'm sure Zuckerberg's recent comments are helping as well.

[–] korendian@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Combo of terrible moderation rules changes by meta, the release of the pixelfed app on Android and iOS, and coverage of that app by major tech news outlets.

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[–] rekabis@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Let’s hope the mobile apps become real mobile apps instead of web page wrappers.

I can understand if you build a site that allows itself to be pinned to your device as if it were an app. That’s a great way to get a product onto devices before you have time+effort to build a native app.

It’s quite another thing to have an actual app with a highly visible GUI wrapper whose only purpose is to connect to and display a specific website.

Like, c’mon.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

looks like ... the climate has changed

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Your graph sucks

[–] jim@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago

The heard "someday" there will be Groups...

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