Based on our record, Lemmy seems to be a lot more popular than PixelFed. While we know about 409 links to Lemmy, we've tracked only 37 mentions of PixelFed. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I'm on pixey.org instance and when I view @dansup@pixelfed.social from my instance, I see that he only has 41 followers and 75 posts but when I see his profile on pixelfed.social instance via incognito, I see that he has 10k followers and 556 posts (as of 11 July, 2023). Source: 11 months ago
Where are you thinking of moving to? Some others I've looked at: Https://cohost.org/ - one of the more promising ones I've seen Blue Sky - but fuck dorsey, amirite? Https://twtxt.net - indie twitter clone Https://calckey.org/ federated Https://spacehey.com/ 🙃 Https://pixelfed.social/ (federated but popular as an insta alternative) Https://wt.social/ (from wikipedia, is getting a face lift soon but seems... Source: 12 months ago
I am unsure, but I have decided to make my account at pixelfed.social. Source: almost 1 year ago
Instagram being a pictures sharing app (at some point) would be pixelfed.social. Source: about 1 year ago
Or here mastodon.social for micro-bloging or here pixelfed.social for pictures sharing or.... Source: about 1 year ago
A few weeks a go I posted a meme with the caption "My wife out-drinking everyone at the table-- Our unborn son:" [picture of Tom the cat in the womb]. I understand abortion is a touchy subject for some people, but it's not like I was advocating for or against abortion. After that, I posted a meme complaining about the lack of specificity of the rules on Lemmy and that post also got removed. That's enough to let me... Source: 8 months ago
Im using the Jeroba app on android first of all. It just seems like lemmy is a complete and total mess. So many contradicting things Im seeing. And then theres instances and communities but apparently it "doesn't matter what instance you choose because you'll still have access to all other communities anyway". Well that is pretty much false. Like using lemmy.world for example. I'll search up for a linux community... Source: 11 months ago
Signing up isn't complicated, people just get confused by what "federation" means... It doesn't matter what instance (or "server" if it's easier to understand) you sign up for. I'm on lemmy.world but I post and comment on lemmy.ml and 10-15 other instances all the time. Think of instances as "copies" with different users and posts, but they all interact with each other (with a few exceptions). Source: 11 months ago
Whereas the top three on my subscribed feed are from [Games@lemmy.world](mailto:Games@lemmy.world), [gaming@lemmy.ml](mailto:gaming@lemmy.ml) and [gaming@beehaw.org](mailto:gaming@beehaw.org). My subs on lemmy are mostly related to video games, but this points out something that confuses some folks coming over from Reddit - lemmy.ml and beehaw.org both have communities named "gaming" and they are separate... Source: 11 months ago
Lemmy has a lot of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmy.world, but you donnot need to register on all of them just register on one, and you can access all of them. Source: 11 months ago
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