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There are dozens of us!
piefed.social's server is coping fine but I recommend new people join any other instance. Look for one with a rocket or lightning icon - https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser
What do the rocket and lightning icons mean?
server speed
rocket - fast lightning - medium
Phew. Picked my instance based on vibes alone, but it turned out good anyway. Didn't even know about the speed ratings.
But lightning is faster than rockets... What? This doesn't make any sense at all!
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Instance responsiveness compared to your location IIRC
Or host your own on bare metal, docker or yunohost :)
tfw 99.6% uptime is only medium stability :\
It's not a technical stability we're talking about there - it's more human. Number of admins with SSH access, whether there are donations coming in, if there are daily backups.
I'm guessing it's because we fund our instances out of our own pockets, and donations don't cover the entire cost? If you're looking for future improvement ideas, I'd much rather that information be exposed directly, than the word "stability" which implies we have uptime issues
Yes I'd be happy to find a better word for it. Although, with low social stability eventually there will be 0% uptime so they are related.
Although, with low social stability eventually there will be 0% uptime so they are related.
I think that's a bit harsh. As it is, Kaity and I would both have to get hit by buses for us to lose the ability to fund our instances. We're both well in to our careers, with sufficient earning power to cover the finances. We would both have to lose our incomes for the long term, before the site itself became threatened. Long enough to ask for community funding if it came to that.
In real world terms, we've been hosting fediverse instances out of our own pocket for over 3 years now, which is a time period few fediverse instances can match, and even fewer threadiverse instances.
Which is to say, I think our social stability is pretty reasonable by fediverse standards. There absolutely are instances out there with higher levels of social stability, but that's not because they have more community funding, it's because they have more users and more admins, which also comes with requisite organisational structures that lets them run their instances without any individual admins being the point of failure.
The intent of that checkbox in the instance chooser settings is really about gauging financial stability. So for people in your position donations from users don't matter so much and you could just tick it. I'm not auditing anyone!
Yes, this isn't a personal judgement about your particular circumstances. The instance chooser embeds assumptions about what tends to happen on average. As such it can never fully represent every situation.
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Anything less than 5 9's of uptime indicates a lack of commitment.
Please do not ask about the uptime of my self hosted services.
Oh crap, I was aiming for 9 5's!
eyyy, i'm one of those. long time mastodon user, but was always intimidated by lemmy, piefed seems a lot more friendly.
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I wish there was an option for the graph to start at zero. Graphs like this can be misleading.
how so. 2000 to 3000 is a 50% increase. in a period of days. I mean its not like the numbers are not there and the rate of increase for the year before is like 1600 to 2000 so like 30%. for the whole year.
This is the same data, but the graph that doesn't start at zero is misleading.
The one bar looks twice as big, when it definitely isn't.
Graphs that don't start at zero can be useful, but it's nice to have the option to choose.
I understand that but when I see a graph that does not start at zero I can take it into account. I get you though about best practice. Usually this type of thing I think is from software defaulting to it to avoid white space. At the extreme if you have something that is at a million and goes up to 1.1 million that can be a huge jump for a particular time span but if you started at zero it would just look like a straight line.
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If you need to read the numbers to interpret a graph it is redundant and bad visulisation.
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Be ready for many comments mentioning that
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Where's the increase coming from? Users changing from Lemmy or new users to the theadiverse? (I fucking hate that word)
From reddit :)
can confirm👍
Woo nice!
(I fucking hate that word)
Not the biggest fan either, but nobody has better alternative. Compared to Forumverse, Threadiverse is a bit better.
Also a few threads on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
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i heard its being promoted on reddit, could be from there.
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Let’s see if piefed is as open as it claims to be. The creator and maintainer actually injects their own opinion into the source code. There are so many deny lists and a social score built into the system.
Piefed is great at putting in new features and making everything pretty. But it’s so opinionated, you’re better off on Reddit, imo.
Almost all of these are able to be turned off.
By "social credit" you just mean a toned down version of Reddits karma (that doesn't track positive score)?
No, like posting a gif leads you to have -1 social score, hidden, because you posted a gif. There’s so many opinions in the code.
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Personally I'm fine with a comment getting removed if all they replied with is "this." Sure that's opinionated, but it's a good opinion.
It can be turned off anyway, most of the others do turn it off.
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Every time I hear “censorship” cried in relation to piefed, I think of the same cries with Voat, another Reddit clone/refuge. It never compromised on that.
And it turned into a (now long dead) toxic wasteland. As that ethos smothered all the interesting niche communities.
IMO, the #1 Fediverse dev priority should be UX that discourages toxicity. That’s what will keep it alive. A militantly, forcibly “unbiased” UX is a quaint old internet ideal, yet it always seems to snowball into an unsustainable toxic monoculture.
So, if piefed uses “opinionated” defaults to stave that off, good.
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Love to see it!
Wtf is piefed
Piefed is a different reddit-like software that federates with Lemmy. It's a different take on the same thing that Lemmy is providing, but still compatible with everything, so a piefed user can see and respond to your comment even if you're on Lemmy.
Piefed also has some neat features unique to it, such as:
- a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
- the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
- the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.
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Love how that looks like a screwy-faced smiley from a distance.
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