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

submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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:

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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[–] mereo@piefed.ca 20 points 9 hours 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.

[–] CubitOom 72 points 12 hours ago (11 children)

The Fediverse is more stable than my country's government

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Wow, I wonder why.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

We need more federated systems

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago

Seems like nobody cares about pixelfed here

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 51 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for sharing

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 35 points 12 hours ago

Thank you for caring!

[–] admin@lemmyusa.com 22 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

i noticed alot less content without lemee.ee, mainly because people scattered to other instances.

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[–] don@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 hours 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.

[–] KenOh@feddit.online 10 points 11 hours ago

RIP lemm.ee, sunaurus' wonderful mustache will live on in our hearts.

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[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

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 15 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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 12 points 8 hours 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 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

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 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.

The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?

The difference will be the OC. If users don't want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.

I'll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.

We'll see what happens I guess.

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 21 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Are those two drops to zero a reporting error?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 32 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

yes, probably from fediverse.observer itself going offline

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 27 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 12 hours ago

Probably.

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[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure how you define strong but MAU has been dropping quite consistently for the past year or so.

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[–] omniman@anarchist.nexus 2 points 10 hours 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

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

not loving the inorganic appearance in some of those rises and climbs. the sudden ones or the curved ones.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What’s with masto’s spontaneous drop in posts and contemporaneous rise in users about a month ago?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 points 12 hours ago

it must've been a big instance going offline (or switching platforms? or blocking the stats collection?)

also note a lot of those graphs don't start at 0, the Y axis is zoomed

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