Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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

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)

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.

Hell yeah! 2025 is the year of the linux Fediverse desktop!

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

Is this the fediverse's answer to Instagram?

fuck it, I tried mastodon, I'll give pixelfed a try too.

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.

Is there any integration with Lemmy? Cross promotion would be awesome, and something big tech can’t actually do.

I am but a humble end user using the web interface, but I do know mastodon comments can somehow show up on Lemmy.

Good for pixelfed

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.

People share photos and videos all the time on mastodon. What is the difference with pixelfed?

Nice.

Does anyone have recommendations who to follow on pixelfed?

Oh you mean people don't like being shouted and cursed at for having a moderate opinion.

... 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.

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.

Everything helps.

No corporations in social media. No venture capital in social media.

Looks really cool, just discovered something liket his existed.

Misskey seems really popular looking at numbers. I'm confused because nobody talks about it. Is it because of some niche super active audience?

I don't know if Lemmy is for everyone, but I'm very happy to see the fedicerse gaining more traction.

Every user that onboards to pixelfed is going to now understand how to set up mastodon.

Blue sky is basically trying the exact same thing and expecting a different result.

so how do we interact with pixelfed from lemmy or mastodon?

What are the top 2? Mastodon and what else?

Also does anyone know how to get the post into lemmy? Im having issues importing other fediverse posts so I had to direct link. I would rather the owner of the post get recognition and likes/shares show up in mastodon/activityhub rather than just a static link on lemmy if possible.

For example on mastodon/pixelfed/etc... I can pull the remote url and create a post/share. It seems specific to lemmy.world. On other lemmy platforms, I can see posts, just older ones.

Neat, is there a way to share from Immich to Pixelfed?

Whats pixelfed all about? Im only now hearing about it.

So they really want to compete then? 🧐

yay i guess?

Still feels empty

Anyone have success joining pixelfed.art? Still waiting to get approved over a week later.

It's always going to be like that; photo blogging is a lot more popular than niche forums and bulletin boards.

Also, Pixelfed has a lot more eyes on it because of Meta being in the news.

It's not a bad thing though.

Does the server matter at all? Wasn't able to find a straight pixelfed.ca like I did with Lemmy, but it seems like people always end up dunking on the larger servers or defederating them because of Nazis.

SPLITTERS!

Pixelfed-eral police

What made the boom?

I'm finding the iOS app buggy as heck. It just crashes as soon as I open it. Had to delete it. May try again later.

I want to use it more but the android app never works. What's the deal? Keeps saying it's trying to connect to an outdated instance of pixelfed.social.