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Pixelfed is growing at a rate of 20,000 active users per day. (source).
Mastodon has recently been growing at 5,000 to 10,000 active users per day. (source)
Those are active users, i.e. actually posting or liking/favoriting. Since yesterday pixelfed.social had to turn off its global feed. Mastodon.social still has its global feed but it doesn't seem to be getting pixelfed posts and isn't updating automatically. Maybe it's good that the press is ignoring them. If they grew any faster they'd become unusable.
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if or once lemmy is ever flooded, the lack of moderation will destroy it from within.
Nice one ha ha
Augh, why didn't you fix the missing segment on the fedi logo while you were monkeying around
Here, all fixed.
I know you are trying to aggravate but this is actually good enough for my purposes.
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Why did they have to turn off their global feed? And will it be back?
No idea. Over the weekend pixelfed.social was getting laggy, so my completely ignorant speculation is it's a temporary thing to manage the influx of new users. It's also possible my setup is wrong somehow bc I'm not really familiar with either platform.
I just wish PixelFed was actually usable. It’s incredibly slow and clunky in the just released app. The biggest barrier to entry for an Instagram alternative is convincing your friends and family to join. Twitter and Reddit alternatives are mostly anonymous and don’t necessitate following people you know.
The slowness is probably due to the sudden growth. The web interface of pixelfed.social was pretty slow for a couple days over the last weekend and is still occasionally unreachable. I think the expectation is that it will peak soon and stabilize at some percentage of the peak, with performance improving.