As a fan of pixelfed I occasionally checkout to see if it is causing any buzz on comments, generally around instagram-is-doing-something-bad posts. The verge posted this article and there were some pro pixelfed comments that have been removed.
There is still one comment, which is a simple link to the .org. But I don't see why the comments were removed unless they were auto flagged as bot-spam perhaps. Yet other comments pimping and linking to other options remain.
Makes me a bit grumpy, with all the work Dansup has been putting in.
Might as well send an email to the person who wrote the article and promote PixelFed.
That's an idea, though I imagine a service with ~ 90,000 accounts wouldn't be newsworthy.