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Pixelfed user count has gone vertical. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Editing to let people know that I will be blocking anyone who feels the need to tell me why this graph is inaccurate. I truly don't care, but feel free to chime in with your useless take and land a spot on my block list! ๐Ÿ™‚

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[โ€“] 345 points 2 years ago (62 children)

Lies, damn lies, and graphs that don't have the Y-axis starting at 0.

10% growth in a day is nice, but far from a revolution. Let's see this trend going for a month.

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  • [โ€“] 63 points 2 years ago* (26 children)

    Monthly active users increased by 43% between 13 and 14 January: https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

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  • [โ€“] 56 points 2 years ago (25 children)
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  • [โ€“] 47 points 2 years ago (24 children)

    I don't think anyone here is arguing that the entire world will be using pixelfed by the end of the year, and that its usage will expand to other galaxies by the end of the decade.

    It's a comment about the current growth curve, and it is both accurate and interesting.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 2 years ago (23 children)

    Lemmy had the same jump in numbers during the Reddit Exodus. Mastodon had a huge boost when Elon bought Twitter.

    Every spike has been a followed by a slide back to baseline in less than a couple of months. After you've seen it happen so many times, it is no longer interesting.

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  • [โ€“] 55 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    The fact that you believe these platforms were the same before and after these events makes it sound like you were not, in fact, there to see it happen. In my experience, it permanently changed both platforms, transforming them from weird niche sites to genuine alternatives.

    That said, what you find interesting or not is not any of my business.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    This thread (and others in that post) might interest you: https://communick.news/post/2320430/4138857

    https://archive.ph/YtA25

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I don't think that either Mastodon or Lemmy slid back anywhere near as far as back to baseline? Sure, usage went down, perhaps even significantly compared to the peaks, but I think that both retained a lot more users than they had before their respective spikes. I'm an example of someone who came into Mastodon with the Twitter exodus and into Lemmy with the Reddit exodus, and I've stayed for both.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't mean that the numbers went exactly back where they were. I mean that every spike was followed by a steady decline.

    Compare it with Bluesky now, or compare it with Reddit during Digg's meltdown. Their growth curves will look like an S-curve, not this series of discrete jumps followed by 40-60% loss.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @rglullis@communick.news tbh we shouldn't expect the adoption curve of any Fediverse software to be somewhat similar to the ones of centralised social networks, since Fediverse completely misses the commercial aspect that encourage key users to stay in the platform easing communities to stick to it as well. My guess is that without the action of commercial dynamics, the situation wouldn't be so different from the jumps-and-losses moments we're used to

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago

    ok, that's a fair point. But then this whole talk about "going vertical" and "exponential growth" is useless, and the only thing that we could (perhaps) try to take out of these mass migration events is to ask ourselves "would we able to reduce churn in the Fediverse without compromising on any principles?"

    In other worlds, does this mean that the only reason that the Fediverse is small is because it is not as addictive as the other social networks? Does this mean that leaving Instagram and coming to PixelFed is the same as quitting unhealthy ultraprocessed foods and realizing that when you switch to a healthy diet you simply don't eat as much at all?

    And if any of this is true, shouldnยดt we change the effort from "leave Instagram and come to PixelFed" to "Leave Instagram and quit all social media"?

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  • [โ€“] 27 points 2 years ago

    the head dev Dan Sup mentioned the number of active users jumping from 6k to 30k. we'll see how it holds, but there is strength in numbers, people only stay if other people see what they post there. i have good hopes and really want to ditch instagram

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wake me up in 2 months when 80% of new users churned.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 years ago

    I've never been on IG but I'm strongly considering a pFed account. Am I churn or am I miniscule net-new?

    And yeah, it's a hope that the rumoured meta toxicity is somehow magically not on pFed. I wanna see my nephew's designs and art but not the influencerati junk I fear is on the captive platform.

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