Pixelfed's first plateau in progress
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You're 100% right about that. I've never ran out of nice posts to look at on Pixelfed. I think the medium & format is a lot less addictive and a lot more relaxing/positive, which might help to explain it.
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user retention
yeah, hard to tell.... Lemmy peaked a little under 70k MAUs and is around 45k now... if pixelfed peaks at 300k it's reasonable to think it levels at 200k (i.e. a hundredfold increase from a month ago).
ofc every situation is different... e.g. pixelfed has tighter Mastodon integration (pro) but may depend more on a network effect (con). also iirc the lemmy MAU count methodology shifted at some point, from post/comment to post/comment/upvote/downvote which is a confound for the lemmy dropoff count...
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Well, it is a photo sharing platform.
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o yeah thanks!
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I love art so it's very much for me. I can see how it wouldn't seem attractive to people that aren't into that type of stuff though.
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Sounds like instagram or imgur?
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Is it like an alt to instagram?
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The fediverse has had a very low retention rate. My bet is that after a year MAU will come down to 60k. That is if meta doesn't embroil itself in another controversy.
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The old Instagram before they added the video stuff. Pretty much a 1:1 clone of that I was told (I was never on Instagram so
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Good we need to be sustainable not be like other social media.
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Idk, Lemmy also inreased it's userbase by a factor of 30, mainly from a single event. It had like 1,500 MAU before summer 2023 and now we're at 45k. So I'd say it could be a bit more than your estimate.I kinda agree though, it'll stabilize at a lower number than during a hype period. And I hope we've learned from the past and drama that happened.
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Long and short... Pretty much all the big tech heads sat in the front at trumps innaugeration, including Zuck. Shortly afterwards there were a bunch of coincidental "bugs" of things like, all results being hidden when searching for democrats and LGBT, and people being set to follow trump.
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That’s exactly me as well. Tried it, looked at random people’s cats and dogs. Not for me.
I think that's kind of the challange we've got with regards to making social media from a nerds perspective. We're a bunch of nerds that don't understand the appeal of the things we want to make alternatives to, and wouldn't be interested in using them even if they weren't run by horrible evil tech corporations.
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I feel insane that no one has commented this yet??? The data clearly only starts in November. At minimum this is our second plateau and I seem to recall more that have happened lmao.
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I dunno... it's like the difference between a chain restaurant and your favorite local cafe/pub/diner. The chain restaurant has its benefits, but you have the best interactions with your buddies at your local cafe/pub/diner.
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Excellent point, do you happen to know where I can find longer-term usage data?
