Because news broke that Meta lobbied for the TikTok ban. So people are now boycotting Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Since Pixelfed is an Instagram clone and recently launched the app, it has gained a ton of popularity. The timing of the app launch honestly couldn’t have been better, because it gave all of the fleeing Instagram users a nice convenient place to land.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

They're making the landing even softer

[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

I just signed up after seeing an article saying links to the website are being blocked by Instagram (IIRC). I figured it must be worth looking into if they've gone that far

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 15 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

They released an official all on the app stores

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 18 hours ago

lol i search pixelfed and first result is Rednote, thanks Google play!

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

I think it's been out for a while.

Anyways, when I try to log into the main recommended server (where I already have an account), before I even get to the login page, it gives me this error

Which is a pretty funny thing for the official app to say about the official main instance 🤣

Instead I just installed the PWA from the browser. It works ok.