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?

  • Shadow@lemmy.caMEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Edit: Hmm, this graph doesn’t seem to match up to the fediverse observer data, it’s quite a bit lower and I’m not immediately clear why. (This is graphed off the lemmy.ca DB as federated users from piefed.ca)

    Here’s the same graph for piefed.social:

      • Shadow@lemmy.caMEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        As in active users each day? I don’t have that query written but if I remember I’ll look in the next couple days

        • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.co.zaOPEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Yea these graphs won’t really work for making a good reddit post.

          If and when I can find one I’ll make a post, which should hopefully add a few hundred more users here

              • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                You’re not wrong. Today’s data is from 12:20, all other days are from around 14 central European time.

                Monthly active users of piefed.ca

                mau <- c(109, 114, 114, 114, 120, 123, 370, 502, 569, 588, 602, 611, 613, 969)  
Date <- as.Date(as.Date("2026-01-24"):as.Date("2026-02-06"))  
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()
            • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Here’s the number of monthly active users, which might look more impressive to people who obsess over the Y axis:

              Monthly active users of piefed.ca per day

              It’s not super pretty as I just threw it together and really should be doing other things. But it’s colour matching the Canadian flag, which I hope is appreciated. :)

              I guess a key takeaway is that the number of active users at Piefed.ca multiplied by more than five since late January.

              mau <- c(109, 114, 114, 114, 120, 123, 370, 502, 569, 588, 602, 611, 613)  
Date <- as.Date(as.Date("2026-01-24"):as.Date("2026-02-05"))  
plot(Date, mau, type="l", ylab="Monthly active users", lwd="2", main="Monthly active users of piefed.ca",  
     col="#D80621", xaxs="i", ylim=c(0,613))  
grid()
                • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
                  2·
                  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
                    1·
                    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.