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.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    93·
    3 days ago

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

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      47·
      3 days 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.eeEnglish
      27·
      3 days ago

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

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      3 days 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.worldEnglish
        19·
        3 days 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.”

        • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          24 hours ago

          Here, the issue. People don’t feel like small instances would live for long and migrating do not transfer the old posts so people feel more safe subscribing to the large instances

        • mesamunefire@piefed.socialEnglish
          7·
          3 days ago

          Some people care, most don’t. Lemmy.world is the vanilla ice cream of the fediverse. Thanks for being part of the community!

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            3 days ago

            I like vanilla ice cream. It’s a great base. Maybe today you throw some butterscotch and peacans on it! But tomorrow it’s caramel and fudge, and the next day it’s chocolate chip cookie dough, and yhe day after that it’s whipped cream and strawberry syrup. And the day after that it’s chocolate sauce with peanuts.

            Meanwhile, the guy who got chocolate just ate the same bowl of ice cream for 5 days.

            See it’s kind of like sex, too. Some people just do the same thing over and over. But what I do, is I take some handcuffs, and chains, and baby oil, and some… trails off

            And that kids, is how I met your Mother!

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, we usually tick along at 1 or 2 sign-ups a day, 7 days ago that went to 10 and has settled back to 3 or 4.

      I don’t know if they are coming directly from Pixelfed but there were a few high profile posts about the Fediverse over at The Bad Place, so, following the example of @Blaze@feddit.org, a few of us jumped in to do some missionary work/help man the lifeboats.