Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing (media.piefed.social)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000

(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).

We are seeing:

A small decrease in users on Lemmy: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
And a small increase on Piefed: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
Peertube is up in total users and stabilizing in active users: https://peertube.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
Mastodon is all over the place: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365

Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!

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[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 15 points 4 months ago

The Fediverse is more stable than my country's government

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Finna guess right quick.

US?

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[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 months ago

Thank you for sharing

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

Thank you for caring!

[-] admin@lemmyusa.com 9 points 4 months ago

For the last two years there's been periods where I'd use Lemmy religiously for a month and then not touch it for three. Lemm.ee shutting down killed a lot of my motivation and excitement, but I'm back on the rollercoaster.

[-] don@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

2-year lemm.ee user and general fan of all things Eesti, yeah. That one hurt. But I’m grateful my handle there still exists, and Lemmy’s still home, thanks to some very nice Canadians. Sure af ain’t going back to reddit/xhitter, etc.

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[-] mereo@piefed.ca 6 points 4 months ago

The Fediverse is the way. In this Financialised capitalism, capitalist platforms will continue to be enshitified as they only tend to shareholders interests of continual growth. They do not care about humans.

We need to keep this momentum going.

[-] fujiwood@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Lemmy could use more OC in niche communities.

Most posts are links to other websites.

It might be good to try and post OC from Lemmy or the rest of the Fediverse to mainstream social media sites as a form of exposure.

Maybe we can get this type of idea to become more common here.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Lemmy is a link aggregator. Reddit is as well. Sure, Reddit has started to generate a lot more OC over the last decade, but it took over a decade for that to pick up momentum and gain millions of active users. I don't want a mindless cesspool of half-assed OC. I mostly just want an easy one-stop-shop for news, memes, and discussions.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

Discussions are, arguably, their own type of OC. Like this thread as one example. That's the kind of thing I, and I suspect @fujiwood@lemmy.world, would love to see more of.

[-] fujiwood@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It didn't take a decade for OC on smaller communities. I've been using Reddit since 2009. There was plenty of OC since ~2012.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

And I used it since ~2007. Sure, I'll concede that OC existed back then, but expectations/standards were far lower. Simply starting topics or a meme template that hadn't been done before were fine, often times even hailed. Two broken arms, jollyrancher, coconut, whatever other gross ass viral thing weren't even pictures/videos, they were comments and/or text posts. They became Reddit legends/mythos/lore, regardless.

Anyway, that type of OC isn't going to invigorate the masses like it used to. Any of those stories nowadays would be met with heavy cynicism/skepticism (rightfully so, I might add). I guess my point is, Lemmy has only been somewhat known for a couple of years. It takes a lot of time to build momentum. Reddit continues to enshittify ever further, just like Digg did. Times are different now, there's a fuckton of competition in this type of social media format. What will make it successful is hard to say for certainty. I think sticking to link aggregation and topical discussions is a good start.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Seems like nobody cares about pixelfed here

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 4 months ago

Are those two drops to zero a reporting error?

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 8 points 4 months ago

All ~14M users quit the fediverse simultaneously on that one day and changed their mind a day later

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 8 points 4 months ago

yes, probably from fediverse.observer itself going offline

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 4 months ago

Then they need to be removed for normalization of the data and average daily volumes.

[-] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Those are legs so the line doesn’t fall down.

[-] dual_pyramid_reality@lemmings.world 3 points 4 months ago

I came here from Reddit after figuring out the platform is beyond saving

[-] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

the problem with this place is it's not user-friendly. and the posts/comments are too nerdy/niche for most people. my lemmy frontpage is like 50% linux nonsense. ordinary people dont' know what linux is.

[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 6 points 4 months ago

Ive been here over a year and I still don't know wtf is going on. I don't know what aussie.zone is, I don't know what "local" is versus "all", I don't know what "all" includes and why it changes. I don't know how to find new subs except accidentally on "all", my brother wanted to drop Reddit and join Lemmy, I had no clue how I signed up.

But, after all that it's still better than Reddit.

[-] ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

Aussie.zone is the server that you created your account on, think of it like having a yahoo email address. Some people have Gmail, some have outlook or iCloud, some have their own private domain. It really doesn’t matter too much because everyone can talk to everyone else, generally. Local is just every community hosted on Aussie.zone. All is everyone else and every other community in every other server that Aussie.zone is federated to (hasn’t blocked). Discover ability is certainly a problem and I’ve been here for two years and haven’t figured that out except stumbling on new communities on all just like you. You’ve pretty much got a handle on it it seems, I would just suggest a good client like Voyager to make things more intuitive on touchscreens if that’s what you’re looking for.

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You had no idea what you were doing and somehow you still won

[-] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 4 months ago

Hahahaha this is the best comment I ever read!

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[-] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 3 points 4 months ago

My problem is less the nerdy and niche stuff. Because there’s a lot of communities and you can subscribe to what you like.

My problem is more how there’s a lot of debate lords, arseholes, and I’m the smartest in the world types.

But I guess that’s the case on all social media. Really shits on what’s otherwise a nice experience here tho.

[-] greybeard@feddit.online 2 points 4 months ago

But someone has to be the smarted in the world, who are you to say it isn't me? /s

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[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I've only been on Lemmy a few days and i can already tell i like it, but can understand the frustration in figuring out what an instance is, or what a federation is. But i personally have used linux for years, i'm a huge nerd, and i hate the way places like Reddit and facebook are owned by republican idiots who refuse to let people talk poorly about the orange cult leader.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Welcome !

[-] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Reddits transformation into a Nazi sympathizing shithole was remarklably swift. Don’t get me wrong, that place was going downhill the second they decided their user base was a product, but it pivoted from generic corporate advertising shithole to fascist friendly nuclear waste pit with remarkable speed. So many micro pud incels willying to volunteer for the brown coats, it’s disgusting.

[-] sarmale@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Damn, reddit turned nazi now? I haven't really paid attention to it for some time, what happened?

[-] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Their heavy “anti violence” push is directed at shutting down dissenters of the current American regime. You can post all the horrific violent things iCE and the admin are doing to your hearts content but if you so much as “hope” an ice agent or Temu Hitler dies, some jackboot licking Nazi sympathizing mod comes to remove your post, because hoping that an evil person dies is apparently the same as violence. I’ve been personally told by one of the admins that hoping someone dies of natural causes is treated as a call to violence, because they’re Nazi sympathizing troglodytes.

They’re eagerly chugging Goebbels cock at the mere thought of an extra dollar, because they’re Nazi sympathizing capitalist scum. The only thing they deserve is a bullet in the Brain and an unmarked grave in a corn field so they can be useful for once in their miserable existence.

Also, they continue to allow /r/conservative despite the fact that it might as well be called /r/fascismrecruitmentanddiscussion. If you make 0 effort from keeping fascists from congregating at your site, congrats you’re a fascist site. Get fucked, I hope Reddit burns to the ground in a fantastic flameout as a lesson to all these scumbags.

Edit: ooh, I just figured out what post actually got my account banned just recently. In response to some Temu Hitler Epstein files distraction theater bullshit I posted the phrase “will someone rid me of this turbulent child rapist?”

Bam, 3 day ban, upheld by Reddit Nazi admins.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

We need more federated systems

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Here from Reddit, have high hopes. This is a marketing problem though, I doubt even 1% of Reddit users know of something like lemmy at all

[-] Bunbury@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

It doesn’t help that all comments mentioning Lemmy are instantly shadowbanned or removed.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

They are not:

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Graphs don't show the people who moved from "Reddit" to "Outside".

Also, any decline in the fediverse could also be being fed up with all the overwhelming political doomer posts and also decide to change their platform to "Going Outside".

So a decline can still be overall positive for human socialization, even if it might not be the best for the fediverse.

Edit: typo

[-] brem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

So you're saying there's a slim chance the underdog can stick around & possibly become what Reddit was meant to be?

& The handful of those of us that make memes for this lost creature should continue to do so?

I always prefer the underdog. Reddit even unbanned me & I'm like "nope, you don't get to do that. I found a better friend that appreciates me in a more healthy way"

[-] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

ok. so i’ve got around 30tb (and counting) of live music recordings from a small club that hosts national touring folk and americana acts. i would LOVE to have it accessible somewhere other than youtube with all the fukin ads, but i am not sure how to go about making them peer tube accessible.

the instances that i’ve looked into have pretty low caps on storage and for clear and understandable reasons. but that leaves me in the lurch. i’m not able to set up my own instance as the recordings are ongoing and that takes all my available time and resources.

anyone have some knowledge that it don’t?

long live the fediverse.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

You could upload the files to a S3 bucket, which would give them a url on the web. Then just make a PieFed post which links to each MP4 file.

Piefed will detect that it's a video post and embed it in the page with player controls. If you use a community just for your videos then the RSS feed of that community will effectively be a podcast.

S3 buckets are pretty cheap but 30 tb is still going to cost you. Transcode to a smaller file before upload, ideally.

[-] omniman@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 months ago

If lemmy implement passkey and show all the comments of the post like in piefed with ccp social credit shit. I will hope back to it

[-] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 months ago

I think the active users per half month might be a more useful metric than total accounts because that includes all the dead accounts.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Having spent about 2 years on Lemmy, I made the commitment to ditch YouTube in favor of PeerTube.

At first, it may look like there's mostly garbage and then some privacy enthusiasts, but that's only because recommendations and search are not very powerful compared to other platforms.

PeerTube is home to troves upon troves of high-quality original content on various topics, you just have to look for it. And for your YouTube-exclusive needs, there are instances that mirror popular channels.

Give it a spin!