Pixelfed is growing at a rate of 20,000 active users per day. (source).

Mastodon has recently been growing at 5,000 to 10,000 active users per day. (source)

Those are active users, i.e. actually posting or liking/favoriting. Since yesterday pixelfed.social had to turn off its global feed. Mastodon.social still has its global feed but it doesn't seem to be getting pixelfed posts and isn't updating automatically. Maybe it's good that the press is ignoring them. If they grew any faster they'd become unusable.

Lemmy is cozy. I think it could be better if it were larger but not like, huge. But its also okay now. Not everything needs the grow at all costs mentality

I didn't choose mbin/lemmy because it was popular, so I'm fine with this.

Swap Mastodon for Xitter and it feels spot on.

Not sure you'd show how well Pixelfed is doing at the moment but that might be for another meme.

It would love it if NPR did a deep dive into alternate social media platforms.

i thought mastodon was part of the fediverse

It's better this way. Reddit went to shit when it started getting media attention.

Did something new happen with bluesky? Or is this just joking about the continued state of things?

We all know there's a barrier, albeit fairly low, to the fediverse proper, but on the other hand, I remember seeing a video once about how people's attention span is so fucked by Instagram and all that that they comment with questions already answered in the post, for example (obviously I can't find it now in the sea of opinion-piece video essays about it). In a way the barrier to entry is a boon to the fediverse proper in all arenas bar financing.

Even Reddit is super niche compared to Xitter or Bluesky. Hardly surprising that its Fediverse-equivalent is a lot less popular than Twitter's equivalent.

Well, at least they're going to something better than Muskrat and Suckerburg offerings

Who knows, maybe they'll even implement the AT proto <-> ActivityPub bridge and then it won't matter lol