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PieFed Users By Day Growth (media.piefed.social)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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PieFed is seeing quite steady growth, nice to see.

Anyone know what that blip was?

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[–] runsmooth@kopitalk.net 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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