jgrim

I run a Pixelfed instance. The code is faaaaaaaarrrrr from polished. Its buggy and the admin interface either doesn’t work or is poorly implemented. I’d rather run and moderate Lemmy than Pixelfed. I have considered just shutting it down several times. I run the instance https://social.photo/.

I doubt many are from other fediverse platforms. Pixelfed has been well known for a while. There are a lot of sharp edges running a Pixelfed server. He’s stretched himself thin with all these projects. They need more love for sure.

This is to be expected. The same thing happened with Lemmy, several times. I had a bunch of signups on social.photo; however, the new people that signed up aren’t very active. I think a lot of people were just trying it out and weren’t impressed.

I feel sad that more people don’t get to see this comment.

/r/nerf created their communities on my instance for a migration but their base wasn’t a fan so they only use !nerf@discuss.online as a backup.

Mods try but people are not open to change.

Nothing spectacular on discuss.online.

I’m the admin of social.photo. Thanks for joining! Lemme know if you have any questions or issues!

Yeah, I’m not convinced people notice the ones on D.O. regarding the other sister sites or donations. Perhaps a change to the theme or something.

I should have clarified that its documentation on the instance or new user groups. You make a point about new users not knowing. There isn’t a way to create a welcome email easily for new users so perhaps a banner or site sticky would help. I find that most don’t read the sidebar.

Chill garden is a way better term. Makes it seem more intentional rather than being censored. Might be a good name for a new instance.

I see signups but no activity. I’m not really sure it’s growing but people are trying it.

I agree, plus, people can block politics if they want already. Perhaps help improve onboarding documentation would help more than a kiddie pool instance. That does sound nice though. Perhaps a new instance that’s a subdomain of discuss.online or a new domain.