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PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is the iPhone app still missing darkmode?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about Android? I don't see dark mode in options.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Dang for some reason I thought Android had it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yup… (at least in the stable channel)

what’s most infuriating is that it used to have it but at some point they redesigned the app and made it worse…?

you don’t have to imitate instagram that much, dansup

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

I think it was more that he wanted to open source the app but had built it while he was learning so it was pretty messy and he felt insecure about it. So he rebuilt the app from scratch and open-sourced it. It just isn't quite at feature parity to the old app yet. Pretty sure dark mode is coming in the next update though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oooh, yea that’s a good point

and, I mean, the app was in beta, sudden changes are to be expected

but still, I feel like the app was so much better before… its kinda frustrating

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Agreed. It immediately went from being maybe the best app in the Fediverse to the 3rd best for its own service. I stopped using Pixelfed altogether until Pixelix got good enough to be a replacement.

I honestly don't understand how getting the new app to feature parity with the old wasn't maximum priority. It at least seems like it's going to get there pretty soon.