Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Sergio@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

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pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

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

its recent rise Image
its subsequent plateau
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its (expected) ebbing Image

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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slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I wonder how they got in

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- can@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What do you mean?
  
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  - slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How they managed that their application for an account got accepted.
    
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jgrim@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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!

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- hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What about hosting Pixelfed is awful? I’m asking because I want to start hosting it by myself.
  
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  - jgrim@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hey, sorry. I’ve been dealing with some ongoing personal stuff.
    
    There are no clear release versions in the repository; all work is done in the mainline branch, called “dev”. Therefore, you are not guaranteed to always use the same code as someone else on the same “version,” which makes debugging issues difficult. I had to build my own Docker containers when I first started hosting it because the ones provided didn’t work as expected. I’ve not tried them since. So, depending on your deployment process, this may not be an issue.
    
    New releases are often buggy and break existing functionality. Feature releases are slow and seem unnecessary when core features are incomplete or not working. The developer is distracted by other projects.
    
    There aren’t any ways to communicate and create a community unless you force everyone to follow a specific account from the start of your instance. Funding is challenging and becomes expensive due to image storage and bandwidth usage.
    
    I have other projects I contribute to; otherwise, I’d contribute to improve or fork Pixelfed. I want to reimplement many of the existing features.
    
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- jim3692@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - jgrim@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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.
    
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froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d love to try it at some point and check the features of it. Do they also have some sort of “reels”?

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- rumimevlevi@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Pixelfed allow videos but they are so rare. The creator has another app for short vidos
  
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  - froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What’s the app name? I’d love a bit of fedi brainrot
    
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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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- rumimevlevi@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What do you mean by wow
  
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  - Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This should cover it fairly well.
    
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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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krimson@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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- theseer@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I wish people cared but unfortunately it won’t change anything
  
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Hafty@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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rumimevlevi@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
All i know is that i see daily people taking about pixelfed on bluesky

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- FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Really! Recommend me some people! I see nobody who’se fediverse aware on my bluesky feed…
  
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  - rumimevlevi@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They are juat random people talking about it
    
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Skiluros@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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- Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Add in the mbin/kbin mau and the piefed mau and you probably have a lot more.
  
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- Blaze@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same here. Next time, hopefully
  
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- rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Subjectively it feels more active around here altely though.
  
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- BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Aren’t they both pulling the same activitypub data?
  
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  - Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    only in theory, Pixelfed doesn’t use groups, so Lemmy cannot access their content since Lemmy can’t follow users
    
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