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! 🙂

  • Mio@feddit.nuEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You have zoomed in. I want to see the y axel from 0. It have increased with 10% of the users.

  • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    For other nerds that absolutely hate dishonest and biased graphs, I present the normalized data. Wow. What a vertical line. 🤦‍♀️

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      its the federation effect in action. I expect pixel fed to get a slow trickle of new users as legacy social media cages and milks its current users for ads.

      Despite the misleading graph from OP, the slow uptick seems to be common with federated social media because there’s little incentive to make viral posts to sell ads.

  • rekabis@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Let’s hope the mobile apps become real mobile apps instead of web page wrappers.

    I can understand if you build a site that allows itself to be pinned to your device as if it were an app. That’s a great way to get a product onto devices before you have time+effort to build a native app.

    It’s quite another thing to have an actual app with a highly visible GUI wrapper whose only purpose is to connect to and display a specific website.

    Like, c’mon.

    • korendian@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I honestly prefer other sites/apps anyway. Tusky is a great app for connecting all your fediverse accounts in one place, and friendica has a filter by image option that essentially turns it into Pixelfed.

  • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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?

    • mastazi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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.

    • korendian@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.