On November 13, 2020, I published an early review of Pixelfed based on my experiences with the developer Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social (note: for those not in the know, Pixelfed is social media software which roughly replicates the central functionality of Instagram). It ended up being our best performing article for three consecutive months (November 2020-January 2021), our most-read article of 2020, and our 6th most-read article of 2021. However, it initially peaked in January 2021, wherein it had its best month in terms of page views until May 2022. It has performed solidly in 2022 while being slated to lose a few spots in the end-year ranking due to better competition. I did not expect, two years after its initial publication, that it would have its best month in November 2022. Yet on the two-year anniversary of its initial publication, my Pixelfed review achieved more views from November 1-13 than it had in any previous month, surpassing its total from May 2022. Some of this is likely due to its being linked in my two articles on the Mastodon-Twitter Crossposter (see leaflet and full review), which have dominated the November ranking thus far, but it has also been doing fairly well on Google Search. Maybe it is time for a follow-up…
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