Is that a normal metric for monolithic social media?
Maybe not for you. For me, I use social media as a way to sew and cultivate personal relationships. Someone I know posts something interesting and I might pick up the phone and call them and talk about it or we discuss it the next time we see each other. Or maybe there's a local event that someone shares and looks fun and I ask to join them.
That sounds lovely but it's not been my experience of using social media (except Facebook). I'm not suggesting my experience is normal, or that yours is. I genuinely don't know.
I couldn't care less about what's happening in the lives of celebrities or companies, or the unsupported political opinions of random strangers, but I guess I'm a weirdo in that way.
Almost all social apps are about algorithmic feed suggesting content from people you don't know. Facebook is one of the few app that are still about personal connection. I can't remember a single person i interacted with usernames on apps like lemmy
I am not gonna lie, I tried two or three separate times and was never able to get a sign up email to go through from multiple instances. I don't know if Gmail has been black-holing them all to protect their interests or not, but I pretty much gave up.
This is pretty normal. Every time there's a big wave of new fediverse users, a big chunk eventually goes back to their original social media. Some portion will stick around to be regular users and the cycle will repeat again next time a social media company pisses off a bunch of people.
I’ve enjoyed Pixelfed a lot more than I thought I would. I feel like the same principle applies to follow tags that you are interested in to make sure you feed has content that interests you. A lot of the same content surfaces on both my mastodon and Pixelfed accounts as I follow the same hashtags on both. I did discover a few accounts on Pixelfed that I wouldn’t have if I just stayed on Mastodon though.
My biggest gripes with Pixelfed is that the app sucks. And the content I’d be most interested in seeing (pictures of my friends and family) aren’t on there. Probably because of reason 1 and because meta platforms aren’t as a big of pain point for them as they are for me
What caused the jump in the first place? I only just opened an account myself because the folks who run my home instance lemmy.ca started up pixelfed.ca about a week ago and I decided to check it out.
It deserves it. That software works SO poorly right now. I went to edit a post I made and it crashed the app. Figuring that was a fluke, I tried again and it crashed the whole app every single time without fail.
Another time, I tried to post a video that was cropped to Loops and IT LOST MY ACCOUNT PERMANENTLY and won’t let me use that username anymore. Guess I don’t need a Loops account anymore? 🤷♂️. Tech support was nonexistent so I just wait until hopefully the dev gets his head out of his ass long enough to fix his buggy, shit software that makes the rest of the fediverse seem like dumbasses.
The best part: the sole dev of both of these apps doesn’t think he needs any help and refuses to open source them. The Kobe Bryant quintessential ball hog of software engineering.
the sole dev of both of these apps doesn’t think he needs any help and refuses to open source them.
Oof, that sucks. Seems like someone else needs to create an open source alternative app. The platforms themselves are libre software, right? I couldn't find a lot for loops on that, but Pixelfed itself seems to be.
Pixelfed has always been fully opensource (and Libre) and there has been fully open source clients, like Pixeldroid, for a long time. The new iPhone app which used the name of the network made things confusing unfortunately.
For lots of people it'll be less confusing. They open their app store and search for this Pixelfed they've heard of and find an official app. That's what they expect.
PieFed
Happened to Lemmy 2 years ago, but there's still more than enough of you ladies and gents to keep it as my only social media app :)
Looks pretty normal. Pixelfed has been hyped. So a bunch of people try it out for a short while, but leave again. some stay.
I threw up my own Pixelfed instance. It was awful. I'm much happier with GoToSocial.
Plus I'm yet to run into a single person I actually know IRL on the fedi.
Is that a normal metric for monolithic social media?
I...don't know what that means?
Lemmy is optimal for chatting with random people. If I want to share personal things, I prefer to do that with people I actually know.
Monolithic as in Twitter, Reddit, Facebook - platforms that do not federate.
Maybe not for you. For me, I use social media as a way to sew and cultivate personal relationships. Someone I know posts something interesting and I might pick up the phone and call them and talk about it or we discuss it the next time we see each other. Or maybe there's a local event that someone shares and looks fun and I ask to join them.
That sounds lovely but it's not been my experience of using social media (except Facebook). I'm not suggesting my experience is normal, or that yours is. I genuinely don't know.
I couldn't care less about what's happening in the lives of celebrities or companies, or the unsupported political opinions of random strangers, but I guess I'm a weirdo in that way.
Almost all social apps are about algorithmic feed suggesting content from people you don't know. Facebook is one of the few app that are still about personal connection. I can't remember a single person i interacted with usernames on apps like lemmy
I mean, you could mention the fediverse to people you know IRL and get them to join.
But I've only done that a handful of times, quite ineffectively, so I can't presume to judge you.
Same.
I am not gonna lie, I tried two or three separate times and was never able to get a sign up email to go through from multiple instances. I don't know if Gmail has been black-holing them all to protect their interests or not, but I pretty much gave up.
This is pretty normal. Every time there's a big wave of new fediverse users, a big chunk eventually goes back to their original social media. Some portion will stick around to be regular users and the cycle will repeat again next time a social media company pisses off a bunch of people.
I’ve enjoyed Pixelfed a lot more than I thought I would. I feel like the same principle applies to follow tags that you are interested in to make sure you feed has content that interests you. A lot of the same content surfaces on both my mastodon and Pixelfed accounts as I follow the same hashtags on both. I did discover a few accounts on Pixelfed that I wouldn’t have if I just stayed on Mastodon though.
My biggest gripes with Pixelfed is that the app sucks. And the content I’d be most interested in seeing (pictures of my friends and family) aren’t on there. Probably because of reason 1 and because meta platforms aren’t as a big of pain point for them as they are for me
I use Impressia for Pixelfed. It’s pretty good.
What caused the jump in the first place? I only just opened an account myself because the folks who run my home instance lemmy.ca started up pixelfed.ca about a week ago and I decided to check it out.
The official Pixelfed app released and I also think the whole TikTok ban had something to do with it.
Ah ok, thanks!
I tried it out after the Instagram censorship and while I haven't been back to Instagram, I also gave up on Pixelfed the 4th time I had to log in.
Is there a dark mode yet??
I use firefox to log into pixelfed, dark mode works on that. (Dark Mode Reader extension fwiw). haven't tried it on firefox android tho.
So far no dark mode yet
I'll wait it out, then. I'd love to use it for obvious reasons
It deserves it. That software works SO poorly right now. I went to edit a post I made and it crashed the app. Figuring that was a fluke, I tried again and it crashed the whole app every single time without fail.
Another time, I tried to post a video that was cropped to Loops and IT LOST MY ACCOUNT PERMANENTLY and won’t let me use that username anymore. Guess I don’t need a Loops account anymore? 🤷♂️. Tech support was nonexistent so I just wait until hopefully the dev gets his head out of his ass long enough to fix his buggy, shit software that makes the rest of the fediverse seem like dumbasses.
The best part: the sole dev of both of these apps doesn’t think he needs any help and refuses to open source them. The Kobe Bryant quintessential ball hog of software engineering.
Oof, that sucks. Seems like someone else needs to create an open source alternative app. The platforms themselves are libre software, right? I couldn't find a lot for loops on that, but Pixelfed itself seems to be.
Has the code been completely open sourced? I haven't been following that very closely
Pixelfed has always been fully opensource (and Libre) and there has been fully open source clients, like Pixeldroid, for a long time. The new iPhone app which used the name of the network made things confusing unfortunately.
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
https://gitlab.shinice.net/pixeldroid/PixelDroid
Ah, right, I mistook it for Loops!
For lots of people it'll be less confusing. They open their app store and search for this Pixelfed they've heard of and find an official app. That's what they expect.
Instagram is mostly influencer driven. The lack of which will get idolaters bored of pixelfed and move back to the zucks.