Does the server matter at all? Wasn't able to find a straight pixelfed.ca like I did with Lemmy, but it seems like people always end up dunking on the larger servers or defederating them because of Nazis.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

It's always going to be like that; photo blogging is a lot more popular than niche forums and bulletin boards.

Also, Pixelfed has a lot more eyes on it because of Meta being in the news.

It's not a bad thing though.

[–] yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Pixelfed-eral police

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I'm finding the iOS app buggy as heck. It just crashes as soon as I open it. Had to delete it. May try again later.

[–] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee -1 points 6 days ago

Not surprising since half of lemmy seems to be a support group for inhalant abusers.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 388 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 0 points 6 days ago

iirc it goes "chafing thighs attract all chicks"

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 223 points 1 week ago (5 children)

People like looking at photos of food and cats more than being railed for having "incorrect* political viewpoints? (/s for anyone not picking up on that btw:-P)

[–] simple@lemm.ee 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (51 children)

I literally just got called a snowflake in another thread for saying people should stop posting US politics in general communities. People still wonder why Lemmy has a bad reputation even in the entire Fediverse... Sometimes I wonder why I still bother here.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yeah, that's definitely a shame. Let's see how it goes, but I'm about to create a !usdefaultism somewhere just to list those occurrences

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (17 children)

2024

Reddit top 10 countries graph showing the US at 43% and the UK next at 5.5%.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 1 week ago

Kick ass! I'm all for more Fediverse stuff getting popular, and if this has any competition, just means more features will be added across all of them.

[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 78 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah! 2025 is the year of the ~~linux~~ Fediverse ~~desktop~~!

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

If you look at monthly active users instead of total users, Pixelfed is a strong 2nd place.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Misskey should have more active users, even more than Pixelfed right now. Almost all Japanese fediverse users are on Misskey instances.

A lot of post in Misskey instance are often followers only. I know several instance that the admin say they have thousands of users but simply not reporting any MAU users for certain reason. Even the one that report them are usually lower than actual MAU due to "offline mode"

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've been wondering about that - the Misskey numbers are very weird, with MAU even lower than the number of new users that join in an average month. But this is a good explanation, thanks. It's just too bad there's not a good way to get MAU for them.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What’s first?

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

Mastodon

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (19 children)

What are you guys posting pictures of over on pixelfed? What's goin' on over there that's so popular? Is it more politics, and social issues? Or is it cats?

[–] m_f@discuss.online 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

There's a sudden influx of users from instagram and tiktok and whatnot because of the ban, zuckerberg fellating Trump, and all of that stuff going on. So the answer to "What's getting posted?" is "everything"

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[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Crazy enough. People are posting what they were posting on instagram.

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is this the fediverse's answer to Instagram?

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

Yes.

-Instagram has pixelfed. -Reddit has lemmy -X has Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma (&forks..) -Tiktok has loops (app still super rough around the edges and sadly on limited to one instance rather than having its own software from what i understand) -Youtube has peertube (so far the least used i think)

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I can't wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it's got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Exactly!! YouTube is by far the best "social" platform (or least shit) and sadly the strongest monopoly. Cus what the fuck is a newly made competitor gonna do? Rip all YouTube videos and host them? People on IG and X etc don't really go around looking at old posts, those places are more for looking at what's new and such. On YouTube however its entirely game that u find a dope edutainment video from years ago that you happen to vibe with.

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 week ago

Yes and the same developer does Loops, the TikTok "equivalent"

Not sure when he sleeps

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 60 points 1 week ago (5 children)

fuck it, I tried mastodon, I'll give pixelfed a try too.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

My feed on Pixelfed is way better the second week, now that I've followed a couple dozen folks and put some posts out there.

And pro tip: Post and tag a cute picture of your pet and people will see your account.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Is there any integration with Lemmy? Cross promotion would be awesome, and something big tech can’t actually do.

I am but a humble end user using the web interface, but I do know mastodon comments can somehow show up on Lemmy.

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hello from Mastodon.

All of these "talk" ActivityPub so Pixelfed should already integrate in some form with Lemmy.

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was curious what the other apps were, found the list: https://fedidb.org/software

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not surprising. As long as they can afford the servers, it will probably get to Mastadon levels.

Lemmy is a replacement for reddit, and reddit was always much smaller than Instagram.

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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago

Good for pixelfed

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice.

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[–] Toldry@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Does anyone have recommendations who to follow on pixelfed?

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