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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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[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 124 points 1 month ago

The Fediverse is more stable than my country's government

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

Finna guess right quick.

US?

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago

Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.

[-] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

Oh. That's a new one for me.

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

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[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 69 points 1 month ago
[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 49 points 1 month ago

Thank you for caring!

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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!

[-] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 31 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

Other than these, some specific recommendations:

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[-] helios@social.ggbox.fr 12 points 1 month 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/

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[-] rozodru@piefed.social 13 points 1 month 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 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[-] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month 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.social 18 points 1 month 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.works 14 points 1 month 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.

[-] statsguy@mas.to 12 points 1 month 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.

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[-] SuperMoosie@mastodon.au 12 points 1 month ago

@turdburglar
I follow @LiveMusicArchiveUpdates

Which links to a lot of live music files at archive.org

Not sure if they would be interested.

Anyway good luck.

[-] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month 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.

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[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month 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.

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.

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[-] mereo@piefed.ca 31 points 1 month 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.

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month 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

[-] Bunbury@feddit.nl 16 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 25 points 1 month ago

Are those two drops to zero a reporting error?

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 34 points 1 month ago

yes, probably from fediverse.observer itself going offline

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 30 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 25 points 1 month ago

All ~14M users quit the fediverse simultaneously on that one day and changed their mind a day later

[-] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Those are legs so the line doesn’t fall down.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago
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[-] fujiwood@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

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 24 points 1 month ago

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 20 points 1 month 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 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 1 month ago

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.

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[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Seems like nobody cares about pixelfed here

[-] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 17 points 1 month 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.

[-] kerm@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago
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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

We need more federated systems

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 11 points 1 month 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"

[-] rhvg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 month ago

Tf happened on those 2 days?

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