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. :)

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. :)

Instagram and Linkedin was the latest last autumn I guess. Would have deleted them sooner had I use LD them, but I don’t think I had signed in to either for years. Spotify before that (though Swedish), replaced with Qobuz.

The current battle is to get my partner to cancel her American streaming subscriptions. Don’t want to be too extremist about it, but yet…

For sure it’s something to take seriously. But for me it’s also a sign of just how good Rimu & co are at dealing with this stuff. DDoS attacks are going to happen because we’re trying to do something nice on the internet. It’s nice to see Piefed is as robust as it is.

Mastodon solves this by offering to redirect you to the active post on another instance. I guess a similar solution would apply here, though I have no idea how technically challenging it would be to implement or if it’s really necessary here. I very rarely if ever find myself in the “wrong” instance.

Yeah, it’s probably related to some recent marketing success.

I highly doubt it’s anything more conspiratorial than some random guy in the social class sometimes referred to as “average redditor” who decided to see what he could do to fuck with people. Not all that much by the looks of it, I didn’t notice any instability at all.

You might be interested in choosing your language(s) in the settings. By default none are selected, meaning that all languages will be displayed.

You’d miss out on some great German memes though.

Huh. Sounds like a bug in boost, if you know where to report those!

A lot of the apps were developed for Lemmy first (as you’re probably aware) and Piefed support is often experimental still, so it’s not unheard of that there could be some bugs here and there.

There’s a powerful API available, and from checking why your account has a low reputation warning I see you’re into vibe coding. So I guess you could have your fun putting together your own user interface.

Personally I like the default one. Each to their own.

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

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()  

Merkelig måte å falle ut av et vindu på.

This guy couldn’t sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.

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

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()  

I’m sure this can be done with custom CSS in the user settings!

I don’t really know how, but if nobody magically spawns with a solution in this thread you could consider asking in [email protected] :)

Because it’s constantly used by Fox News?

It’s an old word and people have different connotations. I personally associate it with union busters and railroad bulls.

There’s a blog post on contactless payments in /e/OS here, which talks about options without Google Pay. It’s written by the guy who started /e/OS, so it should be a decent source.

My guess would be that Google Wallet is so embedded in Google dependencies that you’d pretty much be back at stock Android by the time you get it working. But I have no personal experience, sorry.

Also it’s not like there’s not plenty of history of white gangs (also Irish, Italian, and Russian) and masked thugs in modern American history. If you think these terms are just for Latinos and blacks maybe stop watching Fox News for a second and read a fucking book.

Well, you see, if you’re a violent black you’re a “thug” or “gang member”, if you’re a violent white you’re a “cop”, and if you disagree with this analysis you’re apparently racist.

Yeah, they’re thugs. If people lack the imagination to realize thugs can can be white that sounds like a them problem to me.

Honestly, this reads almost as “they’re not thugs, they are white so it’s just policing as usual and that makes it alright”. I’m assuming the post is trying to say cops are bad, but if the white authoritarian racist would agree 100% with your statement maybe consider reformulating.

Yeah, this is true. They just seem to have a specific beef against Fairphone and /e/OS because it’s presented as a privacy alternative (due to no big tech tracking), and the Graphene team believes they are the only ones with the security features to ensure true privacy (because of their… hardened malloc?).