Editing to let people know that I will be blocking anyone who feels the need to tell me why this graph is inaccurate. I truly don’t care, but feel free to chime in with your useless take and land a spot on my block list! 🙂

      • aasatru@kbin.earth
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        3 months ago

        I don’t think anyone here is arguing that the entire world will be using pixelfed by the end of the year, and that its usage will expand to other galaxies by the end of the decade.

        It’s a comment about the current growth curve, and it is both accurate and interesting.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Lemmy had the same jump in numbers during the Reddit Exodus. Mastodon had a huge boost when Elon bought Twitter.

          Every spike has been a followed by a slide back to baseline in less than a couple of months. After you’ve seen it happen so many times, it is no longer interesting.

          • aasatru@kbin.earth
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            3 months ago

            The fact that you believe these platforms were the same before and after these events makes it sound like you were not, in fact, there to see it happen. In my experience, it permanently changed both platforms, transforming them from weird niche sites to genuine alternatives.

            That said, what you find interesting or not is not any of my business.

              • aasatru@kbin.earth
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                3 months ago

                Yeah, I know I shouldn’t bother. I am just annoyed by the misconception that all graphs should always start in 0 on the Y axis, as if it was some law of nature. Shouldn’t allow myself to get dragged in further. :)

            • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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              3 months ago

              I am here since before the Reddit backout and I am on Mastodon since 2018. Lemmy was at 15k MAU, went up to over 125k and now is 1/3 of that. Mastodon had 1M 575k something before Elon, hit up close to 2M 1.5M and now is sitting around 800k. (edit: I was looking at the overall charts and used wrong figures. Corrected now.)

              Sure, if your reference point is waaaay before the spikes then what we have now seem “a lot”. However, my point is that these spikes are far from being indicative of mass adoption.

                • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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                  3 months ago

                  Oh, wow, very impressive! Did you have to use a calculator to get to this challenging result?

                  Communick’s revenue grew 1800% in 2024, compared to 2023. Do you think that makes it successful in any way?