Pixelfed user count has gone vertical.

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.

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.

For other nerds that absolutely hate dishonest and biased graphs, I present the normalized data. Wow. What a vertical line. 🤦‍♀️

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.

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

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

This is what a good app does to a MF.

Impressive indeed

• https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
• https://fedidb.org/software/pixelfed

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

Happy to see!

I wondering what caused such jump.

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

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.

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.

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

Pixelfed is federated, an account can be made with Mastodon to log into different servers. But it seems different from lemmy in that joining one instance doesn't seem to provide you with a method to view other instances and pick and choose as part of your feed. I think some people find that confusing. Any comments on that?

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

Gotta have an official app, that’s the only reason I made an account and posted anything.

I don't really use Instagram, but I might give Pixelfed a try. Does anyone know if it's also a left-wing echo chamber like Lemmy?

And those are just the instances that show up. Nice!

325,000 users? Had no idea.

Let’s hope the mobile apps become real mobile apps instead of web page wrappers.

I can understand if you build a site that allows itself to be pinned to your device as if it were an app. That’s a great way to get a product onto devices before you have time+effort to build a native app.

It’s quite another thing to have an actual app with a highly visible GUI wrapper whose only purpose is to connect to and display a specific website.

Like, c’mon.

what the fuck is a pixelfed

Your graph sucks

does anyone know why this sudden uptick?

looks like ... the climate has changed

I'll make an account when it reaches 1M users

I still can't get a loops account.

The heard "someday" there will be Groups...

At this rate, their user base will be larger than atoms are in the universe

hmmm.. I never tried out pixelfed. I will now.

edit: oauth not working :/

I saw Pixelfed mentioned on TikTok. So yeah!

https://vernissage.photos/home may be better than Pixelfed. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/28641458

Graph

Seems the trend continued in the days after you posted this graph.

I'd like to point out that a similar thing happened to Lemmy back when the Reddit exodus happened. We have to keep in mind that growth might happen suddenly. But it doesn't necessarily continue indefinitely. And a large chunk of users are likely not to stay. But with this said, it's a good thing. We need independent platforms. Now more than ever.