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Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 year ago by 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!

Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing

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[–] 119 points 1 year ago (15 children)

The Fediverse is more stable than my country's government

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Finna guess right quick.

    US?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Oh. That's a new one for me.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    While you're on the right track, it's fixing to, which to be honest doesn't make any sense

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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)

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    • [–] 77 points 1 year ago (17 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (14 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.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 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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    • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thank you for sharing

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    • [–] 58 points 1 year ago* (17 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!

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

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

    Other than these, some specific recommendations:

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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    • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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    • [–] 29 points 1 year 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.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago (13 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

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (8 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Depends. I specifically targeted the users saying things like “omg, Reddit is dead. RIP. Where shall we go now?” And “If there were an alternative I’d switch in a heartbeat” or “that’s it, I’m leaving. This was my last straw”. Basically users that genuinely sounded to me like they were looking for something. Not that they ever got to see my response.

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    • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Are those two drops to zero a reporting error?

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