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Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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 9 points 9 hours 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"

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I tried in 5 or 6 different subreddits. Different phrasing, sometimes not even outright saying the name, definitely not linking out. None of them made it through.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

That's probably the mod team rather than the site as a whole. /r/RedditAlternatives has regular discussions about Lemmy and the Fediverse, so at least that sub is ok

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but the average reddit-user doesn't frequent /r/RedditAlternatives unless they're looking for one.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The average reddit user isn't indeed looking for an alternative, so they're unlikely to welcome any suggestion anyway

Trust me, I've tried several times

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Tbh I'm not sure the average Reddit user is who we want to attract here anyway. Not to be elitist, but there might be a benefit to at least some barrier to entry. From a bot/spam/troll perspective as well.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I have it linked in the subs I mod there. I welcome Reddit relieving me of duty, those subs are being neglected ngl lmao. :)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They definitely lose by missing you!

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Some of them are. Mine was.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 33 points 14 hours ago (3 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 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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.

[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Nah thats not a frustration, just your ego settling down. Real frustration is realizing most instances die or have shit registration functions, along with most having unfamiliar names that you'll also have to remember. Most apps have been a nightmare with this, genuinely just say fuck it and dont even care about this account.

The federation system is cool but not unique, its just what all servers have been doing and now theres a choice being handed to the user as well. It doesn't really defeat a centralized system.

I always though about something like folding at home but for a social media. Essentially the same thing as a centralized network, but with a scheduled 'decay' as main issue for large sites is the actual horde of content. Text based instances could have longer decay time with a refresh basis for visits. With an archival option for regular post, and a trend option for porn-centric instances.

Porn often exploit and subverts most services like this however I think it is a very influential thing that cannot be banned nor freely allowed. However, one can only really generalize so much about porn - but it is a strong way for those in power to subscribe others to their ideals. So noticing trends like the porn hub chart is important. Someone should study 4chan porn trends since 2012 to now. Huge dynamic shift in thread titles alone. All that free fox marketing of the fappening really got their target demographic hooked and the later pepe dogwhistle. Hooboy.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

shit registration functions

... and there are some shit moderators here, just like on Reddit

... and there are some really high-value communities here, because of really good moderation -- just like on Reddit

EDIT: But it's Federated, and therefore much more self-healing in that decentralized Internet way

[–] Ashiggan@eviltoast.org 8 points 12 hours ago

Just joined eviltoast and using voyager. Loving the switch from reddit.

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 19 points 16 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.

[–] Wrongputbet@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Is there a merch store or sumthing we can buy to advertise this awesome place and help support it?

[–] dual_pyramid_reality@lemmings.world 67 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 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 40 points 16 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.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.zip 25 points 15 hours ago (4 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.

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hahahaha this is the best comment I ever read!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago

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

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[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 8 points 16 hours ago (3 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.

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[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

I'm actually in a state of confusion over the fediverse, reddit, and social media as a whole atm. I loved switching over to Lemmy because of the foss/decentralizing and lower user count at first. If I see a thread with 1500 comments I'm less likely to interact with it, like trying to hold a meaningful conversation at a concert event.

Forums and articles are slowing becoming harder to find for information without going through 6 AI pages repeating the same paragraph in 20 different ways without really telling you anything new, so that's slowly becoming more of a burden. Reddit is so inundated with mainstream now that even a specific trade community just has terrible trash comments that get upvoted and can even drown out a professionals real informational response (like youtube does a lot) but ... at least it's there I suppose.

Lemmy... well yes this space is "nerdy", but there's very few specific nerds. by that I mean like the true nerd definition of someone so into this one niche thing that they completely lose all touch with social ques because their area came up in conversation and they are salivating to talk about it. I just recently got told in the most popular pc build community here that they never really bothered looking at memory speed.... I was flabbergasted.

so idk what I would like to see Lemmy become or the future of these types of sites in general. I forced myself to make that post on the pc build community because I was going through the process and maybe it would help someone out in the future and a little socializing while going through a project seems interesting. But, I have so many other posts I think about and just don't do because it's going to be either generic responses or me talking into the void with putting a lot of work into collecting all the data I have and formatting it/etc. Time is always limited, so it's a battle over priorities and responsibilities.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 56 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (10 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!

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 28 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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

Other than these, some specific recommendations:

[–] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Replying to save this comment. Thank you 👍

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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 11 points 17 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

[–] Kroko@feddit.online 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 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.

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Tf happened on those 2 days?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 10 points 15 hours ago

The crawler probably went down and did not record anything

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