submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

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! πŸ™‚

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[–] 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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  • [–] 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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    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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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    [–] 187 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

    To be fair, the Y-Axis doesn't start from zero.

    That being said, 10% account growth in 2 days is pretty solid. Let's hope both account creation and engagement metrics (MAUs/DAUs) keep growing.

    EDIT: Correct Axis type.

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Pedantic: You mean Y-axis, right? Technically, neither start at zero but I think you meant Y based on context.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No, all time based graphs should start at the big bang.

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    [–] 80 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    For other nerds that absolutely hate dishonest and biased graphs, I present the normalized data. Wow. What a vertical line. πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    its the federation effect in action. I expect pixel fed to get a slow trickle of new users as legacy social media cages and milks its current users for ads.

    Despite the misleading graph from OP, the slow uptick seems to be common with federated social media because there's little incentive to make viral posts to sell ads.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just a FYI, Dan who made Pixelfed also does Loops and a few other Fedi projects in case people want more cool stuff to play with.

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I signed up, though I generally don’t like following individuals and much prefer groups or communities like Lemmy. Gotta support independent social media.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I wish they would put the official app on F-Droid. I use PixelDroid, but it'd still be nice to try.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    This is what a good app does to a MF.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Impressive indeed

    Both sites have different monthly active users numbers, but between 42k and 52k is quite impressive

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    wow, it's really cool. I have also made an account on gram.social (pixelfed server). so far I am liking it :)

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Happy to see!

    I wondering what caused such jump.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    You have zoomed in. I want to see the y axel from 0. It have increased with 10% of the users.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I tried self hosting Pixelfed but gave up because it wouldn't work. I'm used to Docker containers that are able to just start up by themselves, but the guide didn't work for me. Maybe it's time to try again.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    I'm not sure the graph is accurate.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What are you supposed to put in the "server url" field in Pixelix? I put the instance I have an account on, because I don't have any other information that would make sense to put there, but nothing happens when I tap the arrow.

    Also, what the fuck, fediverse. It's exactly this kind of bullshit that's why nobody joins you. Fix it for Christ's sake. Something this unintuitive doesn't even belong in a beta build. If I was a paid instagram plant making this app to frustrate people into going back to instagram, this is the splash screen I'd use. Stop making it impossible to recommend you in good faith to people I like.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Oh no, Metas profits!! How will they live in a slightly better world now?

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