https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
I don't even use Pixelfed, but its growth is kind of interesting to me:
- its recent rise
- its subsequent plateau
- its (expected) ebbing
The ebb lasted a lot longer than I was rooting for. But now it seems to have caught a recent uptick. Still slight in terms of its maximum peak, but respectable: 47K Monthly Active Users. (about the same as the total number of MAUs on Lemmy!)
Furthermore, it's also reflected in the half-year Active Users, meaning it's not just people who signed in a couple months ago who are now checking back in -- looks like brand-new active participants.
Any idea what caused this? Another "migrate" campaign? Did Instagram do something stupid again? Or is it just a data glitch?
What about hosting Pixelfed is awful? I’m asking because I want to start hosting it by myself.
Hey, sorry. I've been dealing with some ongoing personal stuff.
There are no clear release versions in the repository; all work is done in the mainline branch, called "dev". Therefore, you are not guaranteed to always use the same code as someone else on the same "version," which makes debugging issues difficult. I had to build my own Docker containers when I first started hosting it because the ones provided didn't work as expected. I've not tried them since. So, depending on your deployment process, this may not be an issue.
New releases are often buggy and break existing functionality. Feature releases are slow and seem unnecessary when core features are incomplete or not working. The developer is distracted by other projects.
There aren't any ways to communicate and create a community unless you force everyone to follow a specific account from the start of your instance. Funding is challenging and becomes expensive due to image storage and bandwidth usage.
I have other projects I contribute to; otherwise, I'd contribute to improve or fork Pixelfed. I want to reimplement many of the existing features.
jgrim@discuss.online Pixelfed has no versioning? That's concerning that you have to live on the bleeding edge if you don't want to be outdated.
I do see there are tags, which at least shows some versioning?