this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

This is what a good app does to a MF.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I tried self hosting Pixelfed but gave up because it wouldn't work. I'm used to Docker containers that are able to just start up by themselves, but the guide didn't work for me. Maybe it's time to try again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 24 minutes ago

Make sure you use a MariaDB or MySQL database. Despite what the (very incomplete) docu says, Postgres support is broken.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Happy to see!

I wondering what caused such jump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Because news broke that Meta lobbied for the TikTok ban. So people are now boycotting Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Since Pixelfed is an Instagram clone and recently launched the app, it has gained a ton of popularity. The timing of the app launch honestly couldn’t have been better, because it gave all of the fleeing Instagram users a nice convenient place to land.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago

I just signed up after seeing an article saying links to the website are being blocked by Instagram (IIRC). I figured it must be worth looking into if they've gone that far

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They released an official all on the app stores

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago

lol i search pixelfed and first result is Rednote, thanks Google play!

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

I don't really use Instagram, but I might give Pixelfed a try. Does anyone know if it's also a left-wing echo chamber like Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)

Lemmy is a left wing echo-chamber? I thought it was a Linux wing echo chamber?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

tomato patato

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I've mostly seen pictures of landscapes and animals, so not as much

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

That's cool.

[–] [email protected] 179 points 7 hours ago (16 children)

Lies, damn lies, and graphs that don't have the Y-axis starting at 0.

10% growth in a day is nice, but far from a revolution. Let's see this trend going for a month.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

the head dev Dan Sup mentioned the number of active users jumping from 6k to 30k. we'll see how it holds, but there is strength in numbers, people only stay if other people see what they post there. i have good hopes and really want to ditch instagram

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wake me up in 2 months when 80% of new users churned.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I've never been on IG but I'm strongly considering a pFed account. Am I churn or am I miniscule net-new?

And yeah, it's a hope that the rumoured meta toxicity is somehow magically not on pFed. I wanna see my nephew's designs and art but not the influencerati junk I fear is on the captive platform.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Monthly active users increased by 43% between 13 and 14 January: https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago (18 children)

I don't think anyone here is arguing that the entire world will be using pixelfed by the end of the year, and that its usage will expand to other galaxies by the end of the decade.

It's a comment about the current growth curve, and it is both accurate and interesting.

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[–] Skiluros 162 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (8 children)

To be fair, the Y-Axis doesn't start from zero.

That being said, 10% account growth in 2 days is pretty solid. Let's hope both account creation and engagement metrics (MAUs/DAUs) keep growing.

EDIT: Correct Axis type.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

Pedantic: You mean Y-axis, right? Technically, neither start at zero but I think you meant Y based on context.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

No, all time based graphs should start at the big bang.

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