PieFed is seeing quite steady growth, nice to see.
Anyone know what that blip was?
My goodness, I hadn’t realized how big fedinsfw.app had become. It’s now easily the biggest piefed instance with almost 2x the MAU of piefed.social.
Hehe, FediNSFW is the new Lemmy.World, for Piefed. :-P
The recent downtrend was 1 month since the big upswing - many people make an account, try it for a few minutes and then don’t come back. But these stats are monthly active users so people like that stay in the stats for a long time and don’t get removed from the count until 1 month later.
Halfway through that cycle https://fedinsfw.app/ was launched and that’s the second wave of growth.
So wait, is this just people through Piefed, or does this encompass Lemmy and like the other members of the fediverse?
Sorry for the dumb question, I’m from Reddit and tbh don’t quite understand this service.
This graph is PieFed by itself, Lemmy is still the majority of the users here
This is just piefed, not including Lemmy users.
You are now on the “Threadiverse”, the subset of the Fediverse (interconnected software using the ActivityPub Protocol to communicate) that uses threaded-based discussions centered around communities, unlike e.g. the user-centric microblogging platforms that most people think of when you say “Fediverse” (aka Mastodon, the Twitter/X replacement, although btw we call the latter Xhitter bc it is perfectly just the right amount of derogatory:-P).
Software in the Threadiverse includes Lemmy, PieFed, and Mbin that combines both threaded-based Threadiverse and user-centric microblogging Fediverse. Also nodeBB, flarum at one point was said to be joining it, and there were some other projects that died out (Sublinks).
In the wider Fediverse there is also Friendica (Facebook replacement), Pixelfed (Instagram replacement), Loops (I forget if federation is enabled for that yet, Tiktok replacement), and so on. Theoretically they can all talk to one another using the ActivityPub Protocol, and being on PieFed you will occasionally see comments or even posts from any/all/most of these, but in practice each type of content is more optimized for the platform that it is aimed at, and the interconnections are clunky. e.g. PieFed has so many more features than Lemmy that the latter doesn’t know what to do with, so it has to simply ignore it - e.g. user polls, or user or post flairs, etc.
Most of the time though, Lemmy and PieFed are seamlessly interconnected. e.g. some of the people replying to you are on PieFed instances, while others are on servers running Lemmy, and unless you dig a bit into each one individually, you can’t really even tell which are which at a glance. The Threadiverse is just great that way - like on Reddit (The Bad Place), if a single person (Steve Huffman) did not like something, then nobody can argue against him, whereas here, if you get banned then in the worst case someone can spin up their own personal instance (running PieFed, Lemmy, Mbin, nodeBB, Friendica, Mastodon, or whatever) and still be connected to the same identical network - here someone is known by their reputation, not landed gentry whose attention is sold to advertising firms for the sake of profits.
He-he!
I’m not sure about the blip.
As I recall, ICE was receiving a lot of media attention over the killing of Renee Good, and that was followed with the killing of Alex Pretti. Reddit was accused of running ICE ads on its platform, and there was a backlash amongst its users.
If this backlash is part of the blip, then the following plateau is curious. Was that some kind of intervention by Reddit, and what exactly is that? Retraction of the ads? Soft-Censorship? It sounds like Reddit actively polices efforts to draw users off the platform.
No, Ek-Hou-Van-Braai did multiple effective advertisements in February, caused a flood of new users specifically to piefed.social and piefed.ca in particular, but obviously after the month ticked by, a bunch of accounts were one and done. As is the way anywhere. Hence the decline.
The recent spike is the emergence of fedinsfw.app which is the successor to the closed lemmynsfw.com
Good stuff!
10 K MAU is the next target!
knew about lemmy for a while, but what makes piefed different ? i just know that piefed exists and is similar to lemmy
Piefed is different software but has many tools lemmy doesn’t.
Custom feeds, scheduled posting, flairs, hashtags, polls, emoticon reactions, better cross posting, private communities.
Blahaj has a piefed instance.
I recently looked at the graph and server list (that has server/instance sizes/MAU) from the same source.
The first growth spike ended up growing Piefed MAU 50% (~1000 MAU) after accounting for the decreased MAU the following month.
The rest of the growth (~2700 MAU) to current MAU is Lemmy porn instance moving to fedinsfw.app.
I recently came here bc Reddit didn’t like me wishing a missile strike on Putin. Don’t know what the others came for.
