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!

  • brem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 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.caEnglish
    14·
    4 hours ago

    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

  • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
    English
    1·
    2 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.

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    7 hours ago

    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.

    • sunflowercowboy@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      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.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 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

    • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      7 hours 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.

      • sarmale@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

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

        • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          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.

  • Wrongputbet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

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

  • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    15·
    9 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.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      10 hours ago

      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.zoneEnglish
        30·
        9 hours ago

        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.zipEnglish
          15·
          8 hours ago

          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.

      • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        61·
        9 hours ago

        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.

      • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        9 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.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        9 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.

  • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
    51·
    15 hours ago

    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!

    • rozodru@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      10 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

    • olenko@feddit.nl
      English
      28·
      13 hours ago

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

      • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I love text blogs, but sometimes videos do a better job to entertain/get the point across for me :)

        Hope you’ll find some treasures of your own!

        • Int32@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          21 minutes ago

          I used to do that for music, but I got a token for a music platform that has all the music I need but in flac :)

  • turdburglar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    371·
    16 hours ago

    ok. so i’ve got around 30tb (and counting) of live music recordings from a small club that hosts national touring folk and americana acts. i would LOVE to have it accessible somewhere other than youtube with all the fukin ads, but i am not sure how to go about making them peer tube accessible.

    the instances that i’ve looked into have pretty low caps on storage and for clear and understandable reasons. but that leaves me in the lurch. i’m not able to set up my own instance as the recordings are ongoing and that takes all my available time and resources.

    anyone have some knowledge that it don’t?

    long live the fediverse.

    • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
      16·
      16 hours ago

      You could upload the files to a S3 bucket, which would give them a url on the web. Then just make a PieFed post which links to each MP4 file.

      Piefed will detect that it’s a video post and embed it in the page with player controls. If you use a community just for your videos then the RSS feed of that community will effectively be a podcast.

      S3 buckets are pretty cheap but 30 tb is still going to cost you. Transcode to a smaller file before upload, ideally.

      • turdburglar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        15 hours ago

        thanks for that. i’m currently saving up for more drives to create the second copy of the 1-2-3 backup scheme. the gang of 2tb ssd’s are all i’ve got aside from the compressed-to-fuck youtube copies. that’s been creating quite a bit of anxiety for me being in charge of so many other peoples artworks.

        we started in 2020 and do 6-10 90 minute shows a week, so it’s a lot to be responsible for. of course they aren’t all gems, but imo they all do deserve to be part of the larger document of this time and place.

        if anyone is interested the youtube videos are made searchable on https://www.livefromnorfolkstreet.com/

        click on the ARCHIVE link in the nav bar. no paywall.

        i’d recommend the alejandro escovedo shows. he’s always great and i did the live lights for a few of his shows.

      • Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦@mas.to
        11·
        15 hours ago

        @rimu @turdburglar And it’s worth noting that you don’t have to use AWS for S3 buckets. I use iDrive, who are quite a bit cheaper than Amazon, and you can also opt to have your buckets on European servers, which may be a plus.

        I think they have generous discounts in the first year to hook you in, but even after that they’re still cheaper than Amazon.

        • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          15 hours ago

          Yup, or self host a S3-compatible server. Much easier to set up and maintain than peertube, I bet.

          • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            13 hours ago

            I believe Garage is the only self-hosted option that allows you to directly expose to html links though.

            Might be nice if you could test that with Piefed some time 😊

      • turdburglar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        16 hours ago

        i actually wrote to them a few months ago. i tried the library of congress as well since they took the alan lomax recordings.

        neither responded. that’s when i started looking at peertube.

      • madjo@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Could also be The Netherlands, where an already fallen government managed to fall again. (meaning that 2 of the 4 leading parties have so far stepped out of the coalition)

        • BremboTheFourth@piefed.caEnglish
          261·
          16 hours ago

          While the letters are adjacent, I don’t think that was a typo. “Finna” is pretty common slang, just a variant of “gonna”

          • Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            12 hours ago

            Yeah finna boutta

            I was honestly so confused before I saw your reply to theirs, I live in the south so that’s just common lingo here

            • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              I get my American slang through Hollywood and Internet, so the curriculum may not be entirely comprehensive at times.

            • aMockTie@piefed.worldEnglish
              41·
              14 hours ago

              For further clarity, it’s a shortening of “fitting to” just like how “gonna” is a shortening of “going to.” As BremboTheFourth said, the two are synonymous.

                • Hazor@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 hour ago

                  Wiktionary suggests both “fixing to” and “fitting to” are used synonymously. Fwiw, in Tennessee, I only ever hear “fixing to”. As someone who learned English outside of the southern US, it makes little sense to me also. But what makes even less sense to me is people saying “trying to” to mean “want to”.

  • Mereo@piefed.caEnglish
    26·
    19 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.