Pixelfed now has the second highest fediverse mau at 92.1k

Pixelfed’s time to shine. We all succeed with this one!
- Hopefully the whisperings of Lemmy gets into the ears of folks.
  
  Waiting for the resurrection of Reddit VS Instagram meme war as Lemmy VS Pixelfed
  
  It's a great opportunity for #pixelfed to add #group support, so those sharing their videos can share it directly to a community/magazine reaching to a wider audience. Same for #loops. Obviously, not at the moment, where everyone is trying to keep things up and running. @dansup@mastodon.social
- Sad the dude behind it is kind of a Jerk. Was bullying a kid on Mastodon just a few weeks back and he got a bunch of backlash for it. Dude also got a bit of a Messiah complex, had to unfollow him 🥴
  
  Please let’s not start the personal attacks on the developers. Lemmy was a shit storm of that and it really sucked when I joined. Take the gift of the software and move on.
  
  Yup. Been following Dan for a while and this has only gotten worse. Problem is, his attitude absolutely informs the way he manages and handles his projects. Even one glance at the issues page for Pixelfed shows that.
  I think at some point, a lot of the Fedi will realise that toxicity and hopefully we’ll see fork efforts like Pixelfed-glitch get more support. Because Pixelfed and Loops are good ideas, executed by someone who really doesn’t have the ability to properly execute on them. I don’t anticipate that these current user numbers will stay given the current, quite broken, state of Pixelfed.

For those who want to know, Mastodon is first, Peertube is third and Lemmy is coming in at fourth place on MAUs
- I didn't expect peertube to be that high.
  
  Surprised Lemmy is so low tbh. It feels pretty active here to me!
  
  The new app is pretty good (although still missing major features). That might have something to do with any recent growth.
- I thought misskey was higher? maybe because people mostly use forks?
  
  Maybe it's counted together with mastodon?

So wait, is it like using lemmy? I mean with choosing a server for your account. (Looks lke it, yes) ~~Does it have a "front page" like lemmy~~? (It does)
~~Is it subject oriented, or person to person like twitter~~. (Person oriented, and tags for subjects)
Edit: Im editing in (my findings) while taking a looksee.
Edit. F it. i signed up.
- It's basically mastodon with a different front end. No fundamental differences.
  
  That's good to know thanks. I don't use mastodon or anything like Twitter/Facebook.
  
  Can it cross federate? Or at least within pixel fed, how easy is it for instances to federate? I've found that mastodon requires at least one person from a different instance following you before your stuff federates there

I was never one to use Instagram, specifically because of the meta bullshit... looks like maybe I'll try pixelfed as a first time for the format.

That number has to be low. There's been nearly 200k new signups in the last few days. Pixelfed's blowing up right now. The local feed on p.s is a never-ending stream of first posts.

If someone would have told me this like a couple of years back, back when most people (besides the foss community) didn’t know about it, I deffo wouldn’t have believed you lol.
It’s nice to see some alternatives getting promoted though.

Maybe someone can help me out. I'm in the app, is there a way to see a feed from all of pixelfed and not just local? I'm on pxlmo.com
- There isn't, unfortunately. Global shows you all of the Fediverse, not just Pixelfed. A global pixelfed feed was a planned feature at one point but I'm not sure of its status.
  For now, it's really hard to find pixelfed users on other servers because they get drowned out by all the Mastodon traffic.
  
  That's weird, why would you want to see other fediverse content in Pixelfed? Surely it should be all Pixelfed content like op expects.
  
  Global shows you all of the Fediverse
  Does it show Lemmy posts tho? It doesn't seem to... Also it looks like it only shows image posts from Mastodon... (not criticizing it, just noting.)
- On the top right is a user icon. Click that and then choose Global
  
  That works for the browser, but not the app. Thank you!

Time for me to jump onto the bandwagon. You'll never know because it will not be under this pseudonym.

I never tried PixelFed and just signed up to pixel.tchncs.de. As a client I downloaded Pixelix from F-Droid. Now I'm there with an empty feed. How do I get started?
There's a section with trending profiles and one with trending hashtags but both sections seem to have pretty generic content like #art, #photography, #photos etc.
Don't get me wrong, it's nice photographies and all but it feels really anonymous and a bit random to me. Is this the normal PixelFed experience or am I doing it wrong?
- Scroll the local feed. Search hashtags and follow hashtags you're interested in. As with Mastodon, your home feed will be empty until you follow people.
- I also don't get it and would love some guidance
  
  I found a global stream that is a bit similar to /all and has a wider variety of content, also new posts with just little interaction so far. That feels already slightly better than the top trends.

What's the best Pixelfed instance?
- The one you use.
  
  Does it matter which one I use?
- https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/list
  If I made an account, I'd sort by "active users" and select one of the top 5.
- I'm on pxlmo.com

What is it?
Fediverse version of imgur?
- It's an Instagram alt.
  
  neat thanks
- Instagram IIRC
  
  You got it right, like Friendica for FB

Yeah, pixelfed is definetly the most normie friendly. Even my friend was able to make an account.

I made an account but I don't really see the appeal. It just feels like a bunch of random photos at the moment. Nothing I really feel like following, as it will just be more random photos.

Crying in mbin!
- What do you mean (from another mbin instance)?
  
  All of mbin is like 1k mau

i used cro.pics and it, dissapeared?

Instagram was an inherently flawed platform. It was supposed to be for people to share artistic photos and portfolios but it was obviously abused for attention. People just post photos of text. This is the same. Limiting a platform to any specific type of media is dumb.
- Most posts on my instance's local feed right now are from new accounts and 99% of them are photography and art. I saw one guy doing a typical poser selfie and just blocked him. It's looking good.
  I encourage people to report any spam that does get posted though. Need to keep Pixelfed nice.
  
  That's on your local feed. Presumably you joined the fediverse to federate with other instances. And since PixelFed federates with all sorts of other platforms, and refuses to be Pixelfed-only, inevitably a large number of those photos are not even intended to be artistic but informational. Not to mention the inevitable future of a platform that becomes even remotely popular.
- But for the fediverse it is a fantastic Trojan horse to get people to join us.