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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ad free? That's an ad, right there.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I'm just going to say it. Pixelfed is empty and Peertube is virtually unusable.

The marketing of the Fediverse as Mastodon + Pixelfed makes no sense. Sometimes Friendica is even still tossed in there.

Lemmy/threadiverse is WAY bigger than either one, but is regularly left out of the conversation. I honestly don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Pixelfed isn't empty. Where are you using it?

Mastodon has a supermajority of users and traffic, and Pixelfed works seemlessly with Mastodon, which is why it's a focus. Twitter and Instagram are the normie platforms, and Fake Twitter + Fake Instagram is something that they would find appealing if the embedded Mastodon userbase wasn't littered with actors hostile to Twitter and Instagram users taking over the space.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Pixelfed is definitely not empty. It even includes posts which include images from Mastodon. I actually find it the best part of the Fediverse, with absolutely loads of great photography and art. Just try following a few hashtags that you're interested and see 👍

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Don't know man. I have a pretty robust Pixelfed follow/followers lists. I regularly get more likes on PixelFed than IG, I think it's because my friends don't get to see my post due to the algorithm. PixelFed's chronological feed is better, imo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I agree. Real community vibes somehow. I use Pixelfed to experience art and encourage artists I like rather than for 'lifestyle' content and it's absolutely perfect. I love it

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

I think it's because instagram, youtube, and facebook are way bigger than reddit, so people coming from them are less likely to go to lemmy.

But the way the fediverse works means they are useful even if they aren't that popular yet. People can follow peertube accounts from mastodon or lemmy. I follow tons of mastodon accounts from my pixelfed acccount. And friendica can handle almost any type of content.

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

Can you follow peertube accounts from Lemmy? I tried, but even though I can find the accounts no content is displayed

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

Federation keeps breaking. Supposedly it's working again in the latest Lemmy release, but most hosts are not up to date yet.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It might be my personal preference, but i find conversations on mastodon hard to follow once there are more than a handful replies.

Lemmy (or reddit) keeps the flow of comments well ordered and perfectly readable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Who would’ve guessed that a tree is the best way to visualize something that can be arbitrarily nested?

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

A computer scientist, presumably.