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! 🙂

  • Zier@fedia.io
    75·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • bishbosh@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Zier@fedia.io
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’m not that sure on what kind of crew he may or may not have.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    2 months ago

    I signed up, though I generally don’t like following individuals and much prefer groups or communities like Lemmy. Gotta support independent social media.

        • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          this is probably the intended method to use mastodon, if you’re trying to follow individual accounts you’re just gonna suffer.

          I also found actually taking time to find an instance that you vibe with (in my case, jorts.horse) really helps to keep stuff interesting in your Local timeline. As a bonus, it also furthers decentralization :)

            • ijgwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              Why does the instance make a big difference? I thought the point in federation is that the instance does NOT matter because everything shows up across instances? Genuinely curious and would appreciate if someone could explain.

              • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                4·
                2 months ago

                So, your home instance is gonna have a “vibe”. Each instance is focused on different things and has different people so the Local feed will be very different. Different instances also block different things and have different rules.

                Once you start following some hashtags, it matters less. Like you said, it’s all mostly available from anywhere.

                • ijgwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  The local feed being different makes sense. I was thinking of the front page (to use Lemmy terms). Thanks for explaining.

              • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafeEnglish
                3·
                2 months ago

                while your Feed won’t matter as it’s chronological and based on your followed hashtags, as @reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com pointed out, your chosen instance will make an impact on your local feed.

                It’s kinda like how you can make an account on lemmy.ml and still connect to any* instance, but you’ll probably still have a harder time finding non-tankies.

                *if they haven’t defederated, that is
  • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    801·
    2 months ago

    For other nerds that absolutely hate dishonest and biased graphs, I present the normalized data. Wow. What a vertical line. 🤦‍♀️

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • chaospatterns@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      19·
      2 months ago

      Make sure you use a MariaDB or MySQL database. Despite what the (very incomplete) docu says, Postgres support is broken.

      • saplyng@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Really? I assumed postgres was the default for basically all open source projects

    • Mechanite@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      I just signed up after seeing an article saying links to the website are being blocked by Instagram (IIRC). I figured it must be worth looking into if they’ve gone that far

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I think it’s been out for a while.

        Anyways, when I try to log into the main recommended server (where I already have an account), before I even get to the login page, it gives me this error

        Which is a pretty funny thing for the official app to say about the official main instance 🤣

        Instead I just installed the PWA from the browser. It works ok.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 months ago

      Because news broke that Meta lobbied for the TikTok ban. So people are now boycotting Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Since Pixelfed is an Instagram clone and recently launched the app, it has gained a ton of popularity. The timing of the app launch honestly couldn’t have been better, because it gave all of the fleeing Instagram users a nice convenient place to land.