I was surprised when my friend casually brought up Pixelfed (he called it "Pixelfeed") and Bluesky the other day.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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For the average person who doesn't understand or care about federated systems, "pixelfeed" is probably a better name. It feeds you pixels.
Just remember this when you see people complain about having to pick a server when joining Mastodon. It's not that, maybe it's just not easy/intuitive lile PixelFed is making it? I don't know.
And then when people were joining, I just saw them complaining about all the anger/aggression on Mastodon. It may've missed a big jump on point with Bluesky's rise, but there will invariably be more. People just have to be ready and willing.
Mainstream media is an antiquated term. Been a while since they've been mainstream. Corporate media, or legacy media even, is more suitable nowadays.
It's like how people still say "internet famous." There are Tiktokkers with larger followings than movie stars these days.
Now all we "need" is a Facebook-like platform on ActivityPub and the set is complete
Great stuff, I don’t do Instagram but I installed the app just to boast their numbers a little
I’m doing my part!
I did the same thing!
Great! Seems like a small subset of people are coming to the fediverse again like durring the reddit blackout. Always love having more people to speak to.
Kickstarter coming sometime soon to get some more resources going for it and related projects. will be interesting to see if it's effective.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks
Dan tends to work on too many things simultaneously (which isn't bad per say, and he thrives doing so) which means things get stalled and its a little hectic. Hoping more funds and community excitement will help spread the work out more and allow him to keep working as he does without other projects being on pause in the meantime.
A few of those projects just need to mature and have teams working on them, I think. There's nothing wrong with him bouncing around to different projects but it sucks that no one's working on Pixelfed if he isn't. It'd be great if he could secure enough funding for an additional paid dev on each of his major projects.
Holy shit, no kidding. He has the most commits by a long shot. 9991 commits vs the #2 at 210 commits.
Maybe with this attention the app is getting, it can kick off like mastodon.
Yeah, it's crazy. Same thing for Loops, FediDB, Sup, and his million other projects. He's a one man band right now. And he has a full-time job on top of that!
I don't think that can go on for much longer with Pixelfed blowing up -- and they're still onboarding about 1000 people per hour. Just for moderating pixelfed.social, he said yesterday that he's received more reports in the last 48 hours than in the last 7 years. There's only so many hours in a day.
FediDB
Wait, he's behind FediDB too?
Excellent. They are seeing huge growth. I'm hoping it's sustainable, the main server is just getting slammed right now (according to the mastodon posts).
According to fedidb all they need is 70k ish more people and I get will surpass Lemmy in number of users.
I can't log in now on Android. Could last night. Guess it's growing pains.
Does Lemmy federate with pixelfed posts?
They do. I could be wrong, but I don't think Pixelfed supports groups yet so I don't think you can interact in a meaningful way. I looked you up from pixelfed.social. I can see your account and could follow you but Pixelfed only shows posts with attached media so I can't see any of your posts/comments.
Yea I've been trying too, I can also search, see and "follow" comms and it'll pull up things like the sidebar info, but actual content is missing
So it's there, but very broken unfortunately. I should make a note to open an issue if there's not one already
Kinda
The Fediverse way.
Most servers do. Depends on their block/allow list and their setup.
The software supports it, you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.
Its not a perfect solution, but it gets the job done after that. (I tested this on an older version of lemmy and a new bleeding edge version of pixelfed)
One of the biggest ongoing issues with lemmy is that all the other fediverse systems generally work together pretty well but then you get to lemmy and it works....kinda? Mostly? But there is always quirks, like only being able to post but not see comments. as I say on lemmy :). I like the platform because of the ongoing community that seems to stick around and have sustainable growth (like oooold reddit).
you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side
OK so I went to my pixelfed.social account, searched for "@superbowl@lemmy.world" and clicked on the "follow" button.
and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.
So... does it have to be a lemmy account on lemmy.world (for !superbowl@lemmy.world, say). And is there any particular pixelfed account that the lemmy account has to follow?
Thanks for the lead.
The Lemmy account has to follow the Pixelfed account that is going to post to Lemmy
How do you find a pixelfed account through lemmy?
I think I figured it out... consider the following links:
- https://slrpnk.net/u/dansup@pixelfed.social
- https://lemmy.world/u/dansup@pixelfed.social
- https://lemmy.today/u/dansup@pixelfed.social
These all refer to the main developer of pixelfed, dansup. The first one is dansup's pixelfed account followed on slrpnk.net where my account is. The second one is dansup's pixelfed account followed on lemmy.world, the biggest lemmy instance. The third one is dansup's pixelfed account followed on lemmy.today, which is your instance.
The account is visible to me on the first two links. HYPOTHESIS: I think that means it's "being followed" by those instances? The account is NOT visible on the last link for me, I just get an error. NeatoBuilds, take a look at the last link: it might give you an error the first time, but HYPOTHESIS: if you refresh, I think it will be visible and that means it's "being followed" on your instance lemmy.today.
search @username@pixelfed.social and you should see the user pop up.
@user@server.url just like any other account. It should show up. Another option is to search for the post on the top of lemmy and then navigate to their account.
Example: @dansup@pixelfed.social
If that doesnt work, you can try this: https://lemmy.world/u/@dansup@pixelfed.social
in other words your telling lemmy to go to his personal account, which happens to be on another server.
Yeeees, but the two won't generally see each other unless they try. That's my understanding.
I need to set my own instances…
According to fedidb all they need is 70k ish more people and I get will surpass Lemmy in number of users.
Monthly active users is probably a more relevant metric
in that case they blew past lemmy before the exodus.
The insta crowd is super active.
That's great!
It makes sense as well, IG is much more popular than Reddit
Then they doubled theirs in 15ish days, which is crazy good.
nice. I don't like that kind of social media, but that means the fediverse is getting attention and people may start migrating here instead of to progressively more privacy-violating platforms.
Good for Daniel. 💜
Here's to hoping for more and more attention!
Cool
Kinda looks like it says cunt behind the guy.
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