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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! πŸ™‚

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 340 points 2 weeks ago (35 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.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 62 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] rglullis@communick.news 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 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.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 54 points 2 weeks 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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[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 weeks 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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[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 weeks 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

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Normalized graph for you:

Not a vertical line, at all. For sure cool, but very exaggerated with a dishonest graph.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 188 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 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.

[–] lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually wish this were true. Sure, they would show the snippet for the time we care about, but they MUST provide the source graph that contains all data back to the Big Bang. Specifically the Plank Era, we don’t want a graph where time doesn’t exist, that would make the graph useless.

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week 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

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

Exactly my first thought seeing this graph.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 75 points 2 weeks 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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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] Ingiald@feddit.nl 13 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I found following hastags I'm interested in to work better for me.

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

the official app is much slower and less polished than PixelDroid and Pixelix.

they do have their own F-droid repo, though https://fdroid.pixelfed.net/fdroid/repo

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Apparently the official app has a few dependencies that themselves depend on Google Play services, hence being blocked for F-droid inclusion.

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[–] scsi@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pixelix just showed up on F-Droid two days ago, the dev open-sourced their code just recently. I find it to be a "better" (subjective :) ) client than PixelDroid after testing it for a bit. $0.02 to any readers. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.daniebeler.pfpixelix/

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[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago

This is what a good app does to a MF.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Impressive indeed

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

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[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 14 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Happy to see!

I wondering what caused such jump.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They released an official all on the app stores

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 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.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Make sure you use a MariaDB or MySQL database. Despite what the (very incomplete) docu says, Postgres support is broken.

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[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure the graph is accurate.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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