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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 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse
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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I hear you. I'm getting tired of the massive amount of posts about trump and elon and politics. I don't see almost any new content about other stuff.

[–] billwashere 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s like Reddit and you gotta filter out the bullshit. Adding Elon, Musk, Trump, and RFK to my block list improved my mental health quite a bit. Hopefully if it’s egregious enough it will slip through and I won’t be blind sided by some terrible thing they’re doing. That’s the only downside.

[–] spookex 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is that Lemmy isn't at the point where I can browse it like I do on Reddit.

After the API thing killed my main reddit app, I just lurk on like 4 1 million+ user sports/video game/military meme subreddits and check on them every 1h/30min to see 10 new posts or any important news that happened. I check r/all maybe like once every few months.

The relevant lemmys just aren't that active or don't have low-effort post rules, so I'm kind of stuck browsing the front page of Lemmy if I want to see more than 10 posts per day

[–] billwashere 3 points 1 day ago

This is very true unfortunately. Maybe eventually but my fear is that when Lemmy gets that big it turns into Reddit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe you could try banning words like "elon" or "trump" if you feel overwhelmed. Some apps have this feature

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

well, i'm against individual workarounds for common problems, there should be common solutions.

otherwise you just start alienating 99% of the users who won't put in the effort to install an extra app just to get that filtering, or if using the web interface on mobile, it's just not possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Gonna try that thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Same problem with Mastodon tbh