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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/[email protected]

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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] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is there a way to peruse pixelfed feeds from Lemmy or Mastodon? Or do I have to make yet another account?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, you can follow a pixelfed account from your mastodon account and see their posts in your feed. Paste the url of their page into your mastodon search to bring up their profile, then you can view their posts and/or follow them.

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

Yeah, but that's not browsing; that's targeting a specific account you want to view more of.

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

Oh, to browse all the posts rather than just one account's, go to https://pixelfed.social/web/explore which should show pretty much everything. (that's the main server with the most users by far, and any other PF servers are federated with it so most of theirs should show up there as well)

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

That's one thing that should be upgraded. There has to be a way to link your accounts in Lemmy, PixelFed, Mastodon, ... so "follow" becomes "follow with" and choose the service.

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

There is something like that on most Mastodon pages where if you are viewing it just in your browser rather than from within your mastodon account, you can click Follow and it will ask for the server name you want to follow it from, so you have to enter your server name, then it will auto-open it in your Mastodon account for you.

I don't know that there's much more anyone could do than that, since any given server you are viewing has no idea what various fedi accounts you may have. That's kind of what "decentralized" means--there's no central database keeping track of all your accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can just open the Pixelfed links using your Mastodon instance:

Open URL in Mastodon

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

You can sign into Pixelfed with your mastodon account.

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

Wut. That doesn't sound secure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Mastodon can view, I think, all fediverse posts if you are inclined to make that happen.