I just signed up for lemmy (brand new here). Can someone help explain piefed? I looked it up and it seems it used the same protocalls? I downloaded voyager app to use Lemmy - do I need to do something else to use piefed? I'm sort of confused, because a cursory search sounds like piefed works on voyager as well. . . If I'm already on Lemmy, am I basically also on piefed, just a different instance?
Sorry, hopefully someone who is smarter can eli5?
Same protocol, yes, so they share all the same content. And a lot of apps originally built for Lemmy now work with PieFed too. Voyager is one of them so if you have an account on a PieFed server/instance you can just add that to Voyager.
When using a mobile app there's not much difference for the average person. But PieFed instances have a lot of mod and admin tools which will tend to improve the quality of the content and people you come across, if that's how the server admins want to make it. https://join.piefed.social/features
Honest question here. Since it's all the same stuff... why do I as a fediverse user care about piefed if it's basically an admin toolbox?
It's cool admins have good tools to minimize workload., but beyond that?
Try it for 5 minutes.
Try what? And how?
PieFed. Just make an account and follow the onboarding. You'll start noticing differences immediately.
Ok. But once I'm in will I see the same content as on Lemmy?
Yep. You can export your settings from Lemmy and import then into your PieFed account, so all your community memberships and blocks will be replicated.
Registration is currently closed on piefed.social due to a DDoS so try any other.
Ah, ok. This clears it up a bit. So it's moreso about the communities that are hosted on a piefed instance - as they have better moderation tools.
Thanks!
Piefed is also a part of the Fediverse, and reads Lemmy instances. Lemmy.zip also has a Piefed server at http://piefed.zip.
So essentially it's just another instance? Do I need to create an account on a piefed instance to get the benefits of piefed vs Lemmy (which I'm not sure what I would actually get different).
Yes, you would
Currently Piefed has tools lemmy doesn't: emote reactions, flairs, hashtags, polls, events, scheduled posts, feeds
So we don't see posts from piefed in here?
No, you do. You are commenting on a piefed post to a piefed user.
You just don't get all the extra bits I mentioned
Ah ok. I can live with that
Oh no... Some of that might be bots. :/
Bots sign up anyway. This is driven by effective advertisement on Reddit.
A day later and it's still going up at the same rate!
It's actually going up even faster!! π
It's an actual good increase but not starting the graph at zero is misleading. It didn't go from zero to the moon, it got from 1.5k to 3.5k, which is more than double, but not as exponential as the graph shows.
Yea I said the same in my other post, here is the graph form zero
You can view it like this: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1200
π
To the moon? π
Numbers rocketing up like measles cases in MAGA country
Seems like a nice occasion for a reminder that this stuff is all made and run on a volunteer basis. There are many ways to contribute, but the easiest by far is by donating a little bit of money on a regular basis! Don't be deterred by feeling you have to give a lot - if a lot of people give a little that's much better. So give a little!
I use Liberapay, but patreon and ko-fi links are available under the "Donate" menu entry at piefed.social. The average LiberaPay contributor gives less than a dollar per weekβwhich is awesome.
Alternatively, if you're on another instance, consider giving a little bit to your instance to help keep it running! It's all running on love and goodwill, and it works precisely because people like you decide it's worth contributing. :)
We need some new (a couple) of general-use instances to help direct this traffic! Piefed.social will help you and redirect traffic to you.
PieFed.co.za is hosted in Germany
It's kinda geared towards South Africans, but it'll be a place where anyone is welcome. I still need to do some housekeeping though.
I really love that you're building a South African instance!
As much as the influx of Europeans to the fediverse is lovely to see, the European/North American bias here is really striking. That's of course not a problem of too many Europeans, but rather not enough other people.
I'm working on getting https://nord.pub online!(rebrand from experimental nord.red) Well, it is online but I wanted proper HA, Backups, and some curated Topics.
Hosted in the Nordics and committed to not being dependent on US tech. (using Hetzner Finland and BunnyCDN)
What caused the surge?
Multiple advertisement posts on DeGoogle, a canadian subreddit and BuyFromEu.
If you're a new user, help the Fediverse grow by being active.
Make posts, comments or even communities and help this place grow
Scalloped growth is normal for social media platforms. Don't panic when it dips
scalloped growth
Sounds tasty and cancerous at the same time.
Yes, MAU is a bit misleading like that... Maybe 20% of them will stick around if we're lucky.
PS. you can see the graph starting from Zero: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=2000
Credit to @squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi for pointing out how.
It seems people stuck around after to a pretty exceptional degree after the previous surge in June last year, when the number of active users was multiplied by four within a little more than a month. Hopefully the same will be true this time around!
Also curious what's next for this graph. Doesn't really seem to be slowing down.
What is causing such sudden rapid growth?
Multiple advertisement posts on DeGoogle, a canadian subreddit and BuyFromEu.
A couple of successful Reddit posts. This last jump was from r/BuyFromEU.
Thats how I ended up here. Even deleted my reddit account.
Me too, fellow BuyerFromEU!
Just didn't delete my Reddit yet. There's some subreddits I need there that don't have the equivalent here yet.
But the plan is to start using this as my primary, and only go there when I need those.
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