biltongPieFed user surge continues! 🚀
https://piefed.co.za/c/fediverse/p/33160/piefed-users-surge-continues
PS. you can see the graph starting from Zero: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=2000
Credit to [email protected] for pointing out how.
badabimIf you’re a new user, help the Fediverse grow by being active.
Make posts, comments or even communities and help this place grow
BlazeAlso feel free to ask questions on [email protected]
We need some new (a couple) of general-use instances to help direct this traffic! Piefed.social will help you and redirect traffic to you.
PieFed.co.za is hosted in Germany
It’s kinda geared towards South Africans, but it’ll be a place where anyone is welcome. I still need to do some housekeeping though.
cabbageI really love that you’re building a South African instance!
As much as the influx of Europeans to the fediverse is lovely to see, the European/North American bias here is really striking. That’s of course not a problem of too many Europeans, but rather not enough other people.
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Sir. HaxalotI’m working on getting https://nord.pub online!(rebrand from experimental nord.red) Well, it is online but I wanted proper HA, Backups, and some curated Topics.
Hosted in the Nordics and committed to not being dependent on US tech. (using Hetzner Finland and BunnyCDN)
Yeah, general use with somewhat if a focus on the Nordics “market”, but I’m not planning on launching competing communities against anything existing.
Btw can I suggest joining the Zulip or the Piefed matrix chats.
I’ve been lurking on the Zulip for a while but you’re right it’s about time I sign up!
CoelacanthSigned up! I still might stick to this account mainly, but a Nordic oriented Piefed instance is definitely appealing.
lumpenproletariatQuokk.au is general use and international.
RimuYep we already have a bunch of good instances ready to go:
- https://quokk.au/ - southern hemisphere
- https://piefed.zip/ - finland
- https://feddit.online/ - usa
- https://piefed.ca/ - canada
- https://piefed.blahaj.zone/ - lgbqa
- https://piefed.europe.pub/ - europe
- https://pf.korako.me/ - japan
…and ~60 more which seem to be for personal or closed-group use but which could open their doors any time - https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
And a million more on the way!
The instance chooser thing is a great addition to PF to help get users distributed across instances.
If by “direct traffic” you mean to send them there, then I’d say we don’t need that, and shouldn’t want it. The whole reason federation works is because control is spread out. Giving one, or a few, instances control of most of the content and users is a horrible idea and begging for issues. Speaking of, if you’re on lemmy.world, you should consider spreading elsewhere. At least don’t send new people there.
Die4EverA small instance isn’t going to grow past PieFed.social in 1 day, let alone an actually big instance like Lemmy.world. If an instance grows too big then we just stop suggesting it and pick a new instance to suggest.
People still direct people to Lemmy.world. A lot of people don’t understand the benefits of federation still and want everyone on one instance. They won’t stop when an instance gets too large.
marighostOne’a these days, Alice…
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irelephant [he/him]Scalloped growth is normal for social media platforms. Don’t panic when it dips
Yes, MAU is a bit misleading like that… Maybe 20% of them will stick around if we’re lucky.
The D Quuuuuillstill a win. i’d rather the people who like it and put in effort stay than be awash with people who aren’t bringing much. the biggest is the more people who try it and decide to stay the more diversity of thought we’ll get. the threadiverse has a very eurocentric bias (here being the sociological construct, US and Canada both contribute to eurocentricism). i don’t presume this will be fixed in this bump, but it is an opportunity for us who are already here to listen to new voices
And Trump for threatening to invade Canada and Greenland.
A couple of successful Reddit posts. This last jump was from r/BuyFromEU.
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mintiefreshAmazing to see all the growth!
It’s an actual good increase but not starting the graph at zero is misleading. It didn’t go from zero to the moon, it got from 1.5k to 3.5k, which is double, but not as exponential as the graph shows.
Yea I said the same in my other post, here is the graph form zero
You can view it like this: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1200
Thanks!
I just signed up for lemmy (brand new here). Can someone help explain piefed? I looked it up and it seems it used the same protocalls? I downloaded voyager app to use Lemmy - do I need to do something else to use piefed? I’m sort of confused, because a cursory search sounds like piefed works on voyager as well. . . If I’m already on Lemmy, am I basically also on piefed, just a different instance?
Sorry, hopefully someone who is smarter can eli5?
Piefed is also a part of the Fediverse, and reads Lemmy instances. Lemmy.zip also has a Piefed server at http://piefed.zip.
So essentially it’s just another instance? Do I need to create an account on a piefed instance to get the benefits of piefed vs Lemmy (which I’m not sure what I would actually get different).
Yes, you would
Currently Piefed has tools lemmy doesn’t: emote reactions, flairs, hashtags, polls, events, scheduled posts, feeds
somethingDotExeSo we don’t see posts from piefed in here?
No, you do. You are commenting on a piefed post to a piefed user.
You just don’t get all the extra bits I mentioned
Ah ok. I can live with that
Same protocol, yes, so they share all the same content. And a lot of apps originally built for Lemmy now work with PieFed too. Voyager is one of them so if you have an account on a PieFed server/instance you can just add that to Voyager.
When using a mobile app there’s not much difference for the average person. But PieFed instances have a lot of mod and admin tools which will tend to improve the quality of the content and people you come across, if that’s how the server admins want to make it. https://join.piefed.social/features
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Nice things about PieFed: There are two other options for reddit-style federated forums, Lemmy and Kbin (recently forked to Mbin, which shows some promise). Having used them both extensively I came away unsatisfied, for a variety of reasons. It is unlikely that their trajectory will change in future, either. However we all owe those projects […]