Excellent. They are seeing huge growth. I'm hoping it's sustainable, the main server is just getting slammed right now (according to the mastodon posts).

According to fedidb all they need is 70k ish more people and I get will surpass Lemmy in number of users.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 38 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Does Lemmy federate with pixelfed posts?

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 48 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Kinda

[–] clgoh@lemmy.ca 81 points 17 hours ago

The Fediverse way.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

They do. I could be wrong, but I don't think Pixelfed supports groups yet so I don't think you can interact in a meaningful way. I looked you up from pixelfed.social. I can see your account and could follow you but Pixelfed only shows posts with attached media so I can't see any of your posts/comments.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't this the dilemma? Each type of fediverse project has its own focus, presenting posts in different ways. If we increase interoperability to the point where everything can be presented fully on any service, will each service be able to keep their focus? Would there be a point in having pixelfed when mastodon exists?

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 1 points 52 minutes ago

Mastodon is an app for sharing text that can also share pictures and videos. Pixelfed is an app for sharing pictures and videos with limited text.

You can curate a feed of pictures on Mastodon by following hashtags like #cats or #catstodon, but the interface is going to always emphasize the text first. Meanwhile on Pixelfed I can follow those same hashtags and get a much better experience for a feed primarily of pictures. Even though many/most of the posts will inevitably come from Mastodon users I can still browse those in my Pixelfed app in a much cleaner way. Artists can post their work from a Mastodon account, but the best way to view all their posts is going to be from Pixelfed.

This is why interoperability is a good thing. The whole point of federation is that different apps can implement their own version of the spec to curate a different type of user experience.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago

I don't think it should be a dilemma - but some do. I don't see why there can't be different corners of the Fediverse. This is my most isolated account here and I'm fine with that. I don't personally want or need integration with Mastodon. I'm glad mbin has that for people who do but I'm not interested in it. And I think it's kind of cool that there are different cultures within Fedi. Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy are all so different from each other and I don't think it's a problem to solve.

I know the ActivityPub authors were concerned about Mastodon getting so big because it only implements a small portion of the AP spec. So they're stoked that others are building out in ways that expand beyond the needs of microblogging.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Yea I've been trying too, I can also search, see and "follow" comms and it'll pull up things like the sidebar info, but actual content is missing

So it's there, but very broken unfortunately. I should make a note to open an issue if there's not one already

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Most servers do. Depends on their block/allow list and their setup.

The software supports it, you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.

Its not a perfect solution, but it gets the job done after that. (I tested this on an older version of lemmy and a new bleeding edge version of pixelfed)

One of the biggest ongoing issues with lemmy is that all the other fediverse systems generally work together pretty well but then you get to lemmy and it works....kinda? Mostly? But there is always quirks, like only being able to post but not see comments. as I say on lemmy :). I like the platform because of the ongoing community that seems to stick around and have sustainable growth (like oooold reddit).

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side

OK so I went to my pixelfed.social account, searched for "@superbowl@lemmy.world" and clicked on the "follow" button.

and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.

So... does it have to be a lemmy account on lemmy.world (for !superbowl@lemmy.world, say). And is there any particular pixelfed account that the lemmy account has to follow?

Thanks for the lead.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The Lemmy account has to follow the Pixelfed account that is going to post to Lemmy

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

How do you find a pixelfed account through lemmy?

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think I figured it out... consider the following links:

These all refer to the main developer of pixelfed, dansup. The first one is dansup's pixelfed account followed on slrpnk.net where my account is. The second one is dansup's pixelfed account followed on lemmy.world, the biggest lemmy instance. The third one is dansup's pixelfed account followed on lemmy.today, which is your instance.

The account is visible to me on the first two links. HYPOTHESIS: I think that means it's "being followed" by those instances? The account is NOT visible on the last link for me, I just get an error. NeatoBuilds, take a look at the last link: it might give you an error the first time, but HYPOTHESIS: if you refresh, I think it will be visible and that means it's "being followed" on your instance lemmy.today.

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh cool yeah I was about to find my mastodon account and see posts and i could see my pixelfed account but shows it as no posts and no way to follow them

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

search @username@pixelfed.social and you should see the user pop up.

@user@server.url just like any other account. It should show up. Another option is to search for the post on the top of lemmy and then navigate to their account.

Example: @dansup@pixelfed.social

If that doesnt work, you can try this: https://lemmy.world/u/@dansup@pixelfed.social

in other words your telling lemmy to go to his personal account, which happens to be on another server.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeeees, but the two won't generally see each other unless they try. That's my understanding.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 15 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

According to fedidb all they need is 70k ish more people and I get will surpass Lemmy in number of users.

Monthly active users is probably a more relevant metric

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

in that case they blew past lemmy before the exodus.

The insta crowd is super active.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 11 points 18 hours ago

That's great!

It makes sense as well, IG is much more popular than Reddit

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Then they doubled theirs in 15ish days, which is crazy good.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I can't log in now on Android. Could last night. Guess it's growing pains.

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 1 points 41 minutes ago

I'm not on the main pixelfed.social instance but mine went down for a bit this morning. I just waited a bit and then I was able to login again.

Mastodon and Lemmy also had a lot of trouble even they experienced these huge waves of migrations partly because no one had scaled the software this far before

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago

I need to set my own instances…