This might be the one to dethrone Mastodon in user count and monthly active user metrics.
I made an account but I don’t really see the appeal. It just feels like a bunch of random photos at the moment. Nothing I really feel like following, as it will just be more random photos.
Yeah, pixelfed is definetly the most normie friendly. Even my friend was able to make an account.
i used cro.pics and it, dissapeared?
I never tried PixelFed and just signed up to pixel.tchncs.de. As a client I downloaded Pixelix from F-Droid. Now I’m there with an empty feed. How do I get started?
There’s a section with trending profiles and one with trending hashtags but both sections seem to have pretty generic content like #art, #photography, #photos etc.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice photographies and all but it feels really anonymous and a bit random to me. Is this the normal PixelFed experience or am I doing it wrong?
Scroll the local feed. Search hashtags and follow hashtags you’re interested in. As with Mastodon, your home feed will be empty until you follow people.
I also don’t get it and would love some guidance
I found a global stream that is a bit similar to /all and has a wider variety of content, also new posts with just little interaction so far. That feels already slightly better than the top trends.
Time for me to jump onto the bandwagon. You’ll never know because it will not be under this pseudonym.
If someone would have told me this like a couple of years back, back when most people (besides the foss community) didn’t know about it, I deffo wouldn’t have believed you lol.
It’s nice to see some alternatives getting promoted though.
What’s the best Pixelfed instance?
https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/list
If I made an account, I’d sort by “active users” and select one of the top 5.
I’m on pxlmo.com
The one you use.
Does it matter which one I use?
Only insofar as the instance stays online. Pixel Fed is compatible with multiple other platforms such as Mastodon, Missley, Sharkey, and Fire fish. So the global feed on Pixel Fed shows you photo posts from users of all federated instances of those other platforms, too. And they can all see posts from federated Pixelfed instances.
It’s the same as with Lemmy, you join a server and you see practically all of them.
I was never one to use Instagram, specifically because of the meta bullshit… looks like maybe I’ll try pixelfed as a first time
That number has to be low. There’s been nearly 200k new signups in the last few days. Pixelfed’s blowing up right now. The local feed on p.s is a never-ending stream of first posts.
Crying in mbin!
What do you mean (from another mbin instance)?
All of mbin is like 1k mau
Instagram was an inherently flawed platform. It was supposed to be for people to share artistic photos and portfolios but it was obviously abused for attention. People just post photos of text. This is the same. Limiting a platform to any specific type of media is dumb.
Most posts on my instance’s local feed right now are from new accounts and 99% of them are photography and art. I saw one guy doing a typical poser selfie and just blocked him. It’s looking good.
I encourage people to report any spam that does get posted though. Need to keep Pixelfed nice.
That’s on your local feed. Presumably you joined the fediverse to federate with other instances. And since PixelFed federates with all sorts of other platforms, and refuses to be Pixelfed-only, inevitably a large number of those photos are not even intended to be artistic but informational. Not to mention the inevitable future of a platform that becomes even remotely popular.
For those who want to know, Mastodon is first, Peertube is third and Lemmy is coming in at fourth place on MAUs
I thought misskey was higher? maybe because people mostly use forks?
Maybe it’s counted together with mastodon?
it’s not, it’s separate on the list but I remember it being 2nd or 3rd at one point
I didn’t expect peertube to be that high.
The new app is pretty good (although still missing major features). That might have something to do with any recent growth.
Surprised Lemmy is so low tbh. It feels pretty active here to me!
This goes to show that you do not need millions of people to have a good community.
Maybe someone can help me out. I’m in the app, is there a way to see a feed from all of pixelfed and not just local?
There isn’t, unfortunately. Global shows you all of the Fediverse, not just Pixelfed. A global pixelfed feed was a planned feature at one point but I’m not sure of its status.
For now, it’s really hard to find pixelfed users on other servers because they get drowned out by all the Mastodon traffic.
Global shows you all of the Fediverse
Does it show Lemmy posts tho? It doesn’t seem to… Also it looks like it only shows image posts from Mastodon… (not criticizing it, just noting.)
I’m not sure. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Lemmy post there, though I haven’t spent a ton of time on that TL. It might be different because all Lemmy posts are posted to groups which aren’t supported by Pixelfed yet. That’s just a guess though.
Yeah I don’t think pixelfed global supports Lemmy – I’ve seen a couple image posts on Lemmy in the past 10 minutes that didn’t show up on pixelfed global. So I guess they miss out on our memes and shitposts lel.
That’s weird, why would you want to see other fediverse content in Pixelfed? Surely it should be all Pixelfed content like op expects.
Lots of great artists are on Mastodon instances, like mastodon.art. Including their image posts means you can see some really good paintings.
It just depends on how you want to use your account. I can see wanting to follow PeerTube or Loops accounts from Pixelfed. I follow a few Mastodon users who just post photos.
The default behaviour is to only show content with attached media but you can change that in settings too. So you can use it as a microblogging service if you just like the look and feel of Pixelfed.
I was just looking for the setting to enable text-only posts on pixelfed.social but it doesn’t seem to be there. 😐
Huh. Yeah, I can’t find it either. I guess it’s been removed. Or maybe I hallucinated it? Spooky.
And then removed at some point, I guess.
Thanks for that deep dive! Glad to not be hallucinating.
On the top right is a user icon. Click that and then choose Global
That works for the browser, but not the app. Thank you!
Ah, good to know. Thanks
What is it?
Fediverse version of imgur?
It’s an Instagram alt.
neat thanks
Instagram IIRC
You got it right. Like Friendica for FB
So wait, is it like using lemmy? I mean with choosing a server for your account. Does it have a “front page” like lemmy?
Is it subject oriented, or person to person like twitter.
It’s basically mastodon with a different front end. No fundamental differences.
That’s good to know thanks. I don’t use mastodon or anything like Twitter/Facebook.
