With all due respect, I'm going to nitpick a portion of your comment there... While the 163k users might accurately describe pixelfed...that is, pixelfed users, that doesn't even begin to describe "the network"... which is composed of millions of fediverse users. Your comment was like saying that email is not that big of a network because there are only X numbers of thunderbird users. Again, all due respect. But pixelfed is only one of many ways to be present on, and interact with millions of people on the fediverse. ;-)