What made the boom?
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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Is there any integration with Lemmy? Cross promotion would be awesome, and something big tech can’t actually do.
I am but a humble end user using the web interface, but I do know mastodon comments can somehow show up on Lemmy.
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Anyone have success joining pixelfed.art? Still waiting to get approved over a week later.
My account got deleted for inactivity like forever ago. I don't post pics and there wasn't much there at the time, I wish they'd have left it but I understand.
Anyway, what's a good instance to make a new account? Mostly gonna lurk, don't post pics much (or really at all), as I said.
I like gram.social
When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.
I want to use it more but the android app never works. What's the deal? Keeps saying it's trying to connect to an outdated instance of pixelfed.social.
Maybe try a different instance, they're probably getting slammed with more traffic than they can handle.
Whats pixelfed all about? Im only now hearing about it.
I'm just worried a lack of content discovery, (foss) algorithms, other features and consistent development will have an adverse effect on this new growth. I'm glad that Dan finally got the apps on the stores at a critical moment though or we wouldn't even be here.
This is the issue. These apps don't use algorithms that made the apps they are meant to replace popular in the first place. People may come, but I fear they won't stay when it's not an exact clone of what they know.
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Everything helps.
No corporations in social media. No venture capital in social media.
I don't know if Lemmy is for everyone, but I'm very happy to see the fedicerse gaining more traction.
Every user that onboards to pixelfed is going to now understand how to set up mastodon.
Blue sky is basically trying the exact same thing and expecting a different result.
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