Recently we've seen a spike in PieFed users, a lot of this came form raising awareness of PieFed's existence on Reddit.

Here's some info you'd need if you want to help raise awareness of PieFed on reddit.

Reddit uses AI to make a summary of a users behavior that it shows to mods, and will flag people who seem spammy eg.

Steps to make a successful reddit post:

1. Don’t have a sus account
2. Make it a image post with a nice catching image (Most important)
3. Don’t include any links away from reddit in the post, don’t even add it to the comments (have others do that)

Sucesfull posts examples:

1. https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1711535/post-with-5k-views-in-1h-promoting-the-fediverse
2. https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1727090/post-promoting-the-fedrivers-on-r-degoogle-on-globalswitchday
3. https://piefed.social/c/fedigrow/p/1720677/post-mentioning-piefed-ca-in-r-buycanadian

These 3 posts got ~500,000 views between them

• Don't go and spam reddit with low effort content. It can do more harm than good.
• Don't post to the same sub more than once a month
• Don't post links in the comments of your own post unless it's already gone viral, instead let others post links or let people figure it out for themselves.

I've tried to promote Lemmy in the past, but Immediately I get comments of people complaining about the UI, UX and tankies which kills all momentum. I've had much better success with PieFed so sticking to that going forward.

I don't use Reddit anymore, I won't be able to promote piefed over there, but these sound like very good suggestions I would have happily followed. Thx for sharing.

Also, I'm troubled looking at your graph: are we really less than 6k active users daily? I'm fine with the total amount of users being tiny compared to reddit, obviously but, well, that's... probably just me being stubbornly naive and still wishing for crowds of reddit users to jump ship ;)

Edit: clarifications.

PieFed also shares users with Lemmy and mbin etc. across the fediverse.
So we're ~50k users, still a low number, but hopefully it will keep growing

Despite the "low" user count I've still found a great community here

Despite the “low” user count I’ve still found a great community here

Oh, I agree, no question about that. And no desire to move back to reddit either.

Where does reddit show this AI summary to mods? I'm still a mod in some comms but don't see it. Ah found it. It's on user hovering but doesn't seem to always work. For example I don't a summary on myself, probably because I stopped posting since 2023

It doesn't always show a summary, the person needs to comment or post in your community.
Sometimes they need to comment a few times before it shows.

Not 100% sure how it works