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  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 hour ago

    The Fediverse needs UI work. The new world needs a new internet.

    I’m thankful we have this glorified hobbyist project of a micro internet, because it’s awesome. It’s time for real layout work to make things more intuitive, instead of this “just solder it” open-source-in-the-bad-way energy that sometimes gets half-assedly splattered around.

    For everybody who has and is working on the Fediverse, thank you.

    • paperd@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      50 minutes ago

      Waiting on your obviously so skilled patches to make it happen.

  • Jeffool @lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Just remember this when you see people complain about having to pick a server when joining Mastodon. It’s not that, maybe it’s just not easy/intuitive lile PixelFed is making it? I don’t know.

    And then when people were joining, I just saw them complaining about all the anger/aggression on Mastodon. It may’ve missed a big jump on point with Bluesky’s rise, but there will invariably be more. People just have to be ready and willing.

  • hitagi@ani.socialEnglish
    12·
    4 hours ago

    I was surprised when my friend casually brought up Pixelfed (he called it “Pixelfeed”) and Bluesky the other day.

  • dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Mainstream media is an antiquated term. Been a while since they’ve been mainstream. Corporate media, or legacy media even, is more suitable nowadays.

  • madjo@feddit.nlEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Now all we “need” is a Facebook-like platform on ActivityPub and the set is complete

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    7 hours ago

    Great stuff, I don’t do Instagram but I installed the app just to boast their numbers a little

    I’m doing my part!

  • sunglocto@lemmy.zipEnglish
    24·
    7 hours ago

    Great! Seems like a small subset of people are coming to the fediverse again like durring the reddit blackout. Always love having more people to speak to.

  • d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    431·
    9 hours ago

    Kickstarter coming sometime soon to get some more resources going for it and related projects. will be interesting to see if it’s effective.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

    Dan tends to work on too many things simultaneously (which isn’t bad per say, and he thrives doing so) which means things get stalled and its a little hectic. Hoping more funds and community excitement will help spread the work out more and allow him to keep working as he does without other projects being on pause in the meantime.

    • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      8 hours ago

      A few of those projects just need to mature and have teams working on them, I think. There’s nothing wrong with him bouncing around to different projects but it sucks that no one’s working on Pixelfed if he isn’t. It’d be great if he could secure enough funding for an additional paid dev on each of his major projects.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    10 hours ago

    Excellent. They are seeing huge growth. I’m hoping it’s sustainable, the main server is just getting slammed right now (according to the mastodon posts).

    According to fedidb all they need is 70k ish more people and I get will surpass Lemmy in number of users.

      • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        7 hours ago

        They do. I could be wrong, but I don’t think Pixelfed supports groups yet so I don’t think you can interact in a meaningful way. I looked you up from pixelfed.social. I can see your account and could follow you but Pixelfed only shows posts with attached media so I can’t see any of your posts/comments.

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          7 hours ago

          Yea I’ve been trying too, I can also search, see and “follow” comms and it’ll pull up things like the sidebar info, but actual content is missing

          So it’s there, but very broken unfortunately. I should make a note to open an issue if there’s not one already

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 hours ago

        Most servers do. Depends on their block/allow list and their setup.

        The software supports it, you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.

        Its not a perfect solution, but it gets the job done after that. (I tested this on an older version of lemmy and a new bleeding edge version of pixelfed)

        One of the biggest ongoing issues with lemmy is that all the other fediverse systems generally work together pretty well but then you get to lemmy and it works…kinda? Mostly? But there is always quirks, like only being able to post but not see comments. as I say on lemmy :). I like the platform because of the ongoing community that seems to stick around and have sustainable growth (like oooold reddit).

        • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
          3·
          7 hours ago

          you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side

          OK so I went to my pixelfed.social account, searched for “@superbowl@lemmy.world” and clicked on the “follow” button.

          and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.

          So… does it have to be a lemmy account on lemmy.world (for !superbowl@lemmy.world, say). And is there any particular pixelfed account that the lemmy account has to follow?

          Thanks for the lead.

              • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
                2·
                4 hours ago

                I think I figured it out… consider the following links:

                These all refer to the main developer of pixelfed, dansup. The first one is dansup’s pixelfed account followed on slrpnk.net where my account is. The second one is dansup’s pixelfed account followed on lemmy.world, the biggest lemmy instance. The third one is dansup’s pixelfed account followed on lemmy.today, which is your instance.

                The account is visible to me on the first two links. HYPOTHESIS: I think that means it’s “being followed” by those instances? The account is NOT visible on the last link for me, I just get an error. NeatoBuilds, take a look at the last link: it might give you an error the first time, but HYPOTHESIS: if you refresh, I think it will be visible and that means it’s “being followed” on your instance lemmy.today.

              • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                5 hours ago

                search @username@pixelfed.social and you should see the user pop up.

                @user@server.url just like any other account. It should show up. Another option is to search for the post on the top of lemmy and then navigate to their account.

                Example: @dansup@pixelfed.social

                If that doesnt work, you can try this: https://lemmy.world/u/@dansup@pixelfed.social

                in other words your telling lemmy to go to his personal account, which happens to be on another server.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Yeeees, but the two won’t generally see each other unless they try. That’s my understanding.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
      131·
      10 hours ago

      According to fedidb all they need is 70k ish more people and I get will surpass Lemmy in number of users.

      Monthly active users is probably a more relevant metric

  • unknown1234_5@kbin.earth
    15·
    8 hours ago

    nice. I don’t like that kind of social media, but that means the fediverse is getting attention and people may start migrating here instead of to progressively more privacy-violating platforms.