I made this post today, https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1quso40/comment/o3evucz/ It got 150k+ views, piefed.social etc. has seen a big spike in users.

If possible I want to copy-paste that recipe in r/BuyCanadian tomorrow to get more Canadians onboard here. But I need a nice image of a graph for the post to work.

Anyone know where I can get a graph like that? Admins?

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Yeah. January 29 was a post on reddit that did well and was kept up. Then if I understand correctly on the 6th it was posted again to the same community with a graph or something, but the post was not kept up. Nevertheless it caused a new pretty neat spike in users.

      Current number is 1148. I’m on mobile right now, but if anyone runs this in R it’ll procduce an up to date graph:

      

mau <- c(109, 114, 114, 114, 120, 123, 370, 502, 569, 588, 602, 611, 613, 969, 1148)  
Date <- as.Date(as.Date("2026-01-24"):as.Date("2026-02-07"))  
plot(Date, mau, type="l", ylab="Monthly active users", lwd="2", main="Monthly active users of piefed.ca",  
     col="#D80621", xaxs="i", yaxs="i", ylim=c(0,1000))  
grid()

      Active users have now doubled in a week. Though it’s a slightly misleading measure as an active user that just signed up is much less reliable than an active user who signed up two years ago. But that doesn’t really matter if the purpose is to use it for promotional purposes. :)

      • ageedizzle@piefed.caEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Nice. And thanks for the script.

        It’s good to know that most of these new users are coming from Reddit. I was worried that a lot of the growth of piefed users was just because people are switching over from lemmy (as is the case for me). That’s nice but lemmy users are already on the fediverse, so that scenario is nowhere near as exciting as a scenario where a whole bunch of new users are joining the fediverse for the first time.

        • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Yeah, it’s a valid concern, but last time I checked MAU for Lemmy seemed pretty stable. So it seems some are leaving and some are joining there, while PieFed is having a moment in its own right. :)

          • ageedizzle@piefed.caEnglish
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            1 day ago

            Awesome! Piefed seems easier to use than lemmy so the barrier to entry seems lower, so I wonder if thats a contributing factor here. Either way though hopefully the growth continues!