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

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 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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[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 minutes 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

[-] Ashiggan@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 55 minutes ago

I'm curious what it will look like when school starts

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 16 points 3 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.world 5 points 3 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.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 0 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes 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.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Welcome !

[-] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 9 points 5 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.

[-] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 hours ago

Tf happened on those 2 days?

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 hours ago

The crawler probably went down and did not record anything

[-] dual_pyramid_reality@lemmings.world 51 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago

Welcome to the Threadiverse! 😁

[-] f1error@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Ditto.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 48 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 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!

[-] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

PeerTube is home to troves upon troves of high-quality original content on various topics,

~~Any recommendations?~~

OP answered in other comment: https://lemmy.today/comment/18705168

[-] Kroko@feddit.online 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

PeerTube Companion LINK
Try browser extension. It redirects youtube videos to peertube when it detects the same video on both sites.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

Nice find, thanks!

[-] rozodru@piefed.social 8 points 6 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

[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago

Could you post some recommendations?

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

Gave here: https://lemmy.today/comment/18705168

Enjoy!

[-] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 28 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Take a look at !peertube@lemmy.world (or the links on the side) and look at Top. Maybe you will see some channels you would like.

And if your on piefed, you can take a look at https://piefed.social/f/fediversevideos, lots of great channels!

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 54 minutes ago

Just want to point out that there are more people in !peertube@lemmy.ml

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

Great find!

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

Other than these, some specific recommendations:

Gardiner Bryant (gbryant@subscribeto.me) - tech YouTuber dipping toes into PeerTube
Oh The Urbanity! (ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com) - urbanism and sustainable development
ASMR of the Fediverse (asmrfediverse@peertube.wtf) - self-explanatory, ASMR videos specifically produced and released on the Fediverse. Exclusive high-quality content!
Making Waves/Roots and Calluses (makingwaves@video.katehildenbrand.com & katehildenbrand@video.katehildenbrand.com) - personal/professional blogs of a marine biologist Kate Hildenbrand, both very worth a watch
Veronica Explains (veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube) - a very cute and non-typical Linux channel from a veteran tech enthusiast
Films (films@fedi.video) - old but gold public domain films
Historical Shorts (historical@fedi.video) - some more tapes from the past

[-] helios@social.ggbox.fr 8 points 7 hours 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/

[-] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago

I just don't use youtube, I prefer reading blogs anyway but I'll look around!

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour 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!

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 hours ago

I only use YouTube to pirate their content

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Data looks great thanks for sharing

[-] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 36 points 12 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.social 16 points 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.

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