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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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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] pixelswarm@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The retention is bad because the new user experience is abysmal. It takes a lot of effort, even for a tech savvy user to get Lemmy & Mastodon to a usable state. Most people are not going to do that and will churn out when there's no interesting content and the app does weird things like shows you the same posts over and over, if you don't manually change settings for things like "hide read posts" in Voyager.

[–] commander@lemmings.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Lemmy and mastodon have been very usable for me.

Peertube and friendica on the other hand...

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