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Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users (slrpnk.net)
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https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

I don't even use Pixelfed, but its growth is kind of interesting to me:

The ebb lasted a lot longer than I was rooting for. But now it seems to have caught a recent uptick. Still slight in terms of its maximum peak, but respectable: 47K Monthly Active Users. (about the same as the total number of MAUs on Lemmy!)

Furthermore, it's also reflected in the half-year Active Users, meaning it's not just people who signed in a couple months ago who are now checking back in -- looks like brand-new active participants.

Any idea what caused this? Another "migrate" campaign? Did Instagram do something stupid again? Or is it just a data glitch?

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[–] jgrim@discuss.online 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hosted social.photo, which was a Pixelfed instance.

I had an uptick in users when I started to consider shutting down the site. It was the reason, ultimately, I decided to shut down as soon as possible. The software is awful, and I don’t want to deal with the issues multiplied by growth.

I decided to announce a shutdown by posting and hoping people see it because you can’t make an announcement to users on Pixelfed out of the box. I know there is an admin interface for it, but it doesn’t work.

Afterward, many of my new users told me they came from other instances that shut down.

This trend could be a blip as users create new accounts to migrate as they did before from their previous accounts. I know there is a user interface for this, but it doesn’t work.

Or it could be the terrible spam filter that blocks real users and allows bots. So, real users aren’t there to report bots. This is compounded by an uptick in new hype instances. These are sometimes poorly moderated instances full of bots awaiting returning interest from their owners to get cleaned up or closed.

Or it’s real!

[–] hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

What about hosting Pixelfed is awful? I’m asking because I want to start hosting it by myself.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am so sorry to hear that. I run the Margit profile in your instance, but I wasn't aware of your plans to shut it down.

[–] jgrim@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's not been easy to moderate, update, & use. If enough people are interested, I'm open to keeping it running as a closed instance. The biggest issue is that there isn't an out-of-the-box way for me to message all the local accounts to discuss this.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 1 points 14 hours ago

Don't worry much about my cat. I will totally respect any decision.

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's really too bad that Lemmy MAUs are once again on a decline curve. I was really hoping we would stabilize above 50K MAU.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Subjectively it feels more active around here lately though.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Add in the mbin/kbin mau and the piefed mau and you probably have a lot more.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aren't they both pulling the same activitypub data?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

only in theory

Pixelfed doesn't use groups/communities, so Lemmy cannot access their content since Lemmy can't follow users

(maybe you were thinking of PieFed? that's a different platform with a similar name lol)

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Ugh, yeah I totally mixed the two up. Thanks for the clarification.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Im not sure piefed can as well? But it would be cool if it did.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just tried and PieFed cannot access PixelFed posts. Mbin can do it.

Personally I don't mind the separation between some platforms, I'm fine with having 2 accounts. The UX is designed to work with the style of content anyways. But I know a lot of people want everything to work with everything.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it possible that because pixelfed is more like microblogs with focus on photos mbin can access them? Because mbin always has microblogs support.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 5 points 2 days ago

I would say that Pixelfed is closer to the microblog space than it is the threaded discussion space.

It's essentially microblogging except with an image media focus (or video, in the case of Loops.)

To each their own, some people communicate better using pictures, some better over short text, some better over long-form text. There's a space for them all :smile:

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 0 points 2 days ago

I like the opposite being able to fetch pictures from lemmy and piefed from pixelfed app

[–] Blaze@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Same here. Next time, hopefully

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All i know is that i see daily people taking about pixelfed on bluesky

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Really! Recommend me some people! I see nobody who’se fediverse aware on my bluesky feed…

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 5 points 3 days ago

They are juat random people talking about it

[–] krimson@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe because Meta is going to use your photos and all the other shit you post to train their AI models.

I think they started doing this 2 days ago, it was in the news, here in Europe at least.

[–] theseer@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago

I wish people cared but unfortunately it won't change anything

[–] slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder how they got in

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean?

[–] slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 16 hours ago

How they managed that their application for an account got accepted.

[–] Hafty@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

I joined PixelFed after the initial hype, but the app wasn’t full featured enough nor did a lot of accounts move over from Instagram like they did from Twitter to Blue Sky so I fell off pretty fast.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't know about you, but I've been #Bloomscrolling lately. As far as I'm concerned, the MAUs are here for the wows.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean by wow

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

This should cover it fairly well.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I understood nothing you just said. Are you an alien from mars, who's almost learned english, but not quite?

Because if so......that's pretty impressive. But also, you should leave earth. Humans have been known to kill other humans for having a different skin color, or for believing in a different magical man in the sky. I can't imagine what they'd do to someone from another planet!

Earth is not tolerant of others.

[–] froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to try it at some point and check the features of it. Do they also have some sort of "reels"?

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pixelfed allow videos but they are so rare. The creator has another app for short vidos

[–] froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the app name? I'd love a bit of fedi brainrot