Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software. (atomicpoet.org)

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

... which is absolutely understandable considering how lemmy is most of the time,

it's politics non-stop, one bad news after another, everyone is quick to bash somebody as either a nazi or a tankie or something else.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

there aren't many places where you can discuss politics or at least try to find comfort in seeing others think somewhat same way. No wonder its all concentrating here. But there definitely should be a lot more non-politics content.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

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 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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 1 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

How dare you!! Here's why you need to be vegan right now by the way grumble grumble grumble

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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

iirc it goes "chafing thighs attract all chicks"

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Is this the fediverse's answer to Instagram?

[-] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

That is very true, and I think some kind of archive is going to be important eventually. I think to get around the hosting costs, one method could be for peertube instances to form a union of instances for collective purchases, because the cost goes down with scale.

With a large enough group you could even split hosting among different providers to prevent a monopoly from forming in the hosting space.

[-] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

I think a big part of that is just straight up storage space, more specially a lack thereof. Google won't release specifics but estimates put the total data stored by YouTube at somewhere near an exabyte (1 million terrabytes). Most of which is made up by video files.

Of course that's just issue number 1 of many to figure out.

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Storage costs keeps getting cheaper, but high quality video keeps taking up more space.

[-] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

It's a matter of finding where the line between cost and user satisfaction meet.

Like sure you could limit all videos to 60fps @ 720p or 30fps @ 1080p but most everyone now wants everything 120fps @ 2160p which takes up dozens of gigs per video and eats up bandwidth.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Does peertube have monetization for creator's? Because that's how you get content that most people watch.

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[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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"

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

that user name logo should be a war crime

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

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"

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

ikr lemmy has a little over 40k active users. If you look at the first data point just as the slope starts to rise, that's where lemmy is by comparison:

Total users is pretty meaningless bc it includes things like users who left and will never return, and bot accounts.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months 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.

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Good for pixelfed

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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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[-] archchan@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I'm just worried a lack of content discovery, (foss) algorithms, other features and consistent development will have an adverse effect on this new growth. I'm glad that Dan finally got the apps on the stores at a critical moment though or we wouldn't even be here.