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PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by koncertejo@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 50 points 4 months ago

The tide lifts all the boats... there is also a noticeable uptick in Lemmy registrations, at least here on our instance.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 17 points 4 months ago

The tide lifts all the boats...

Exactly. I do not care much for Pixelfed. Or Mastodon. Or Friendica. Or really much of anything other than Lemmy. But I just stood up my own PixelFed server, so if someone wants to get away from Meta, I will happily support their decision (and pixelfed.social's server by offloading resources) and they can find me there.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

Yup, I spotted a few Lemmy accounts that were less than a week old recently. Very nice.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 10 points 4 months ago

I think I've also seen new communities being created too

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

This makes sense to me.

All these people had to pick an instance and now probably understand how to do that.

That’s the biggest hurdle to signing up for lemmy or mastodon.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Me in 2024: "Which one is the main one?"

"There is no main one"

"Which one is the biggest?"

"Lemmy.World"

"Thats the one for me!"

"THATS NOT HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO IT!!!"

".....but that's what I did."

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
https://vger.app/ if you want an app

Feel free if you have any questions"