You can see it if you check https://fedidb.org/. Monthly active users have gone from just a hair under one million to somewhere around 1.4 million and still growing. How do we think this will go? How do we feel about this influx of new users? Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn't?

I feel like I didn't really recognize having different "platforms" like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc would give multiple opportunities for the fediverse to make a "first" impression with people.

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like I didn’t really recognize having different “platforms” like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc would give multiple opportunities for the fediverse to make a “first” impression with people.

Corporations have learned long ago the importance of properly identifying your audience, and the Fediverse is not exempt from that rule. Lemmy is the Fediverse version of Reddit and Mastodon is the Fediverse version of Twitter, and just like these two giants could live together with each other and also with Instagram without stepping on each other's toes, so do their Fediverse versions can live with the Fediverse version of Instagram, PixelFed.

Now we're just missing a Fediverse version of Facebook.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

And Nextdoor

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There is Friendica... yeah the name doesn't roll of the tongue, and I only remember just for this comment.. no shade to it

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

Zuck would sue if they'd called it FediBook.