Primfeed, the new social media service for Second Life users -- positioned as an alternative to Flickr after SLers on the photo sharing site experienced a wave of penalties and bannings -- basically just launched last June. Since then, it's seen pretty amazing growth in its first two months. By July, according to SimilarWeb, it reached nearly 1 million total visits for the month (938K, to be more exact).
It's safe to say Primfeed is already one of the very most popular third party site devoted to Second Life. For instance, it's running right behind Seraphim SL, the hugely active Second Life shopping site, which earned 944K visits last month.
Interestingly, SimilarWeb reports Primfeed has a younger demographic than SL itself, with nearly 60% of the user base between 18-34. (SL skews Gen X and Boomer.) Not a huge surprise, as Primfeed is mobile friendly and resembles Instagram and Twitter.
Anecdotally, at least, images posted to Primfeed get better engagement than social media platforms like X/Twitter and Facebook:
Users like Feorie Frimon tell me they get 2-3X Likes and other engagement on Primfeed, versus traditional platforms. I'm a Primfeed user myself (follow me @ Hamlet Au) and I can also report pretty good in-app engagement. I don't see much (any?) clickthrough traffic to my blog or Patreon, but maybe that's just me.
So two months after launch, Primfeed is making a strong showing. As a Flickr replacement, to be sure, it has a long way to go: According to SimilarWeb, the vulnerable image sharing site gets some 43 million+ visits per month. Then again, it's not an exaggeration to guess that most of the most active SL users on Flickr now also have a Primfeed account.
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