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! 🙂

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    2 months ago

    Lies, damn lies, and graphs that don’t have the Y-axis starting at 0.

    10% growth in a day is nice, but far from a revolution. Let’s see this trend going for a month.

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          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.

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            2 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.

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              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.

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      2 months ago

      Normalized graph for you:

      Not a vertical line, at all. For sure cool, but very exaggerated with a dishonest graph.

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      The y axis starting zero does not change the fact that it’s exponentially growing right now. Filter that link posted below for 120 days and it is still a nearly straight vertical line of growth.

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        It’s not exponentially growing. At best, the growth rate has exponentially increased. These are VERY different things.

        It was exponentially growing, the platform would come screeching to a halt and crash.

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          Jesus fucking Christ, you people are miserably pedantic. Nothing about my original post is wrong, so please kindly shut the fuck up with your “well achtually” takes.

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            Ah, the classic response to being proven wrong on the Internet. Have a hissy fit like a 5-year-old and call everyone pedantic etc. You were objectively wrong but there’s no problem with that, everyone is wrong about stuff all the time, the difference is how you handle that. You either act like a mentally grown person and just go “oh, damn, I didn’t know that, thanks for correcting me” or act like you’ve done. No one is out to say that pixelfed isn’t growing, but you’re misrepresenting facts and then being a fucking child about being told so.