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Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing (media.piefed.social)
submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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:

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

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 7 points 47 minutes ago (2 children)

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.

[–] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes 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.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Tf happened on those 2 days?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 hour ago

The crawler probably went down and did not record anything

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 7 points 2 hours 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.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 points 2 hours ago

Data looks great thanks for sharing

[–] dual_pyramid_reality@lemmings.world 47 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (5 children)

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 8 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 36 minutes ago

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

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Hahahaha this is the best comment I ever read!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 33 minutes ago

I think I'll post it to !fedimemes@feddit.uk

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Profile picture checks out

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Ordinary people know what Linux is, they just don't care about. So the effect is the pretty much the same, but for different reasons.

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

Are you saying that I am NOT the smartest person in the world?! That is news to me!

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

if it's less niche it will be flooded with ragebait and covert ads and such. better it stays a bit more niche. that's why i'm fine with it being a little bit more nerdy than other mainstream platforms.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 points 2 hours ago

I see those posts all the time and even I'm not totally sure

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Welcome to the Threadiverse! 😁

[–] f1error@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Ditto.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 42 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (6 children)

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!

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

PeerTube is home to troves upon troves of high-quality original content on various topics,

~~Any recommendations?~~

OP answered in other comment: https://lemmy.today/comment/18705168

[–] Kroko@feddit.online 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

PeerTube Companion LINK
Try browser extension. It redirects youtube videos to peertube when it detects the same video on both sites.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 27 minutes ago

Nice find, thanks!

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 7 points 3 hours ago

Peertube takes awhile to figure out/get going. Other stuff like Mastodon/Akkoma, Lemmy/Piefeed, were easy to figure out to the point where I just set up my own Akkoma instance on my server.

Peertube...oof that took awhile. Yeah the problem is the recommendations and search. you really have to get in there and dig through the top layer of shit before you find the diamonds underneath. There are some FANTASTIC tutorial channels on PeerTube for dev stuff, linux, game dev, etc.

Also the other problem is finding a good Peertube instance. Don't go by whatever lists are out there, it's honestly via word of mouth that you'll find the good ones which is sort of a shame. I think that's the main thing that's holding it back. for stuff like Mastodon or even Piefeed/Lemmy what instance you're on doesn't matter all that much as their all incredibly connected and pretty much provide you with the same "front end" so to speak.

Peertube? it's a mess in most cases. Some instances are super duper customized to the instance owners preferences, others are barely searchable, etc so in a way unlike other fediverse stuff Peertube feels a bit disconnected from itself

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Could you post some recommendations?

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 25 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Can you give me a small list of channels producing such high quality content on Peertube?

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

What the other commenter said, look for these instances, especially TILvids

Other than these, some specific recommendations:

[–] helios@social.ggbox.fr 7 points 4 hours ago

Difficult to recommend specific channels as I don't know what you'd like, but I've found high quality content hosted on these instances :

Other creators host their own instance. For example there's @ozoned doing interview of fediverse people at https://video.firesidefedi.live/

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I just don't use youtube, I prefer reading blogs anyway but I'll look around!

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago

I only use YouTube to pirate their content

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