https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Looks like Pixelfed’s growth spurt is slowing down. Absent any new external stimuli I’m guessing it’ll stabilize around 200K to 300K monthly active users – over a hundredfold order of magnitude from what it was just a month ago.

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    5 days ago

    I’m out of the loop, what happened in January to cause that sudden growth?

    I have an account but I’m not active. Just not much of a social media guy in general.

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      5 days ago

      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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      4 days ago

      Meta ended their fact checking program and decided that hate speech against queer folks is “freedom of speech”

      Then people left in droves