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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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy can't federate with pixelfed yet can it? I know we have some integration with mastodon, but I'm guessing we can't connect to pixelfed directly yet?

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[–] BilliamBoberts@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Excited. Anyone know if/when their gonna add dark mode?

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Still no funny content so disappointed

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Agreed, tho if they grew too fast the pixelfed infrastructure would just die...

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would the infrastructure die? Or would it just cap at a certain limit and lose potential sign ups?

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Great question. Ideally someone trying to sign up for pixelfed.social say would be automatically shunted over to another instance...

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