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!

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 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.

    • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 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·
        11 minutes ago

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

  • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    9·
    4 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
      112·
      4 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
        15·
        4 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
          7·
          3 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
        5·
        4 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
        4·
        4 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·
        4 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
    48·
    10 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
      8·
      5 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
      27·
      8 hours ago

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

      • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        26 minutes 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!

  • turdburglar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    361·
    11 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·
      11 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.

      • Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦@mas.to
        11·
        10 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·
          10 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·
            7 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
        12·
        10 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.

      • turdburglar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        11 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.

  • Mereo@piefed.caEnglish
    26·
    14 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.

  • Slueth@lemmyusa.comEnglish
    26·
    16 hours ago

    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.

    • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I had a similar problem with Lemmy.one. It was the push I needed to move over to Piefed, and I’m glad I did.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      for me it’s mostly when i get flooded by comments from extremist nutbags. at least on lemmy they arne’t reporting me to get me banned site-wide. they mostly just send me links via messaging to ‘educate’ me. which is annoying but not pathetic.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        The bullet points, right? I think that guy is botting. It’s a shame that instance-level bans aren’t more comprehensive.

    • don@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      15 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.