Pixelfed user count has gone vertical.
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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Pixelfed is federated, an account can be made with Mastodon to log into different servers. But it seems different from lemmy in that joining one instance doesn't seem to provide you with a method to view other instances and pick and choose as part of your feed. I think some people find that confusing. Any comments on that?
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.
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.
Yes, I think for new users that is very confusing. I find that somewhat confusing and I think I have an idea what's going on.
Yeah, fediverse platforms aren't going to seriously compete against the big corporate ones until the user experience is as simple.
Exactly. I agree. It needs to be simplified. As easy as creating an account.
