The Fediverse is more stable than my country's government
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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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!
Finna guess right quick.
US?
Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.
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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I came here from Reddit after figuring out the platform is beyond saving
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.
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.
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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You had no idea what you were doing and somehow you still won
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Thank you for sharing
Thank you for caring!
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!
Can you give me a small list of channels producing such high quality content on Peertube?
What the other commenter said, look for these instances, especially TILvids
Other than these, some specific recommendations:
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Gardiner Bryant (gbryant@subscribeto.me) - tech YouTuber dipping toes into PeerTube
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Oh The Urbanity! (ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com) - urbanism and sustainable development
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ASMR of the Fediverse (asmrfediverse@peertube.wtf) - self-explanatory, ASMR videos specifically produced and released on the Fediverse. Exclusive high-quality content!
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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
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Veronica Explains (veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube) - a very cute and non-typical Linux channel from a veteran tech enthusiast
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Films (films@fedi.video) - old but gold public domain films
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Historical Shorts (historical@fedi.video) - some more tapes from the past
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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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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
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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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.
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.
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.
@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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@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.
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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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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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.
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.
RIP lemm.ee, sunaurus' wonderful mustache will live on in our hearts.
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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.
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
It doesn’t help that all comments mentioning Lemmy are instantly shadowbanned or removed.
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Are those two drops to zero a reporting error?
yes, probably from fediverse.observer itself going offline
Then they need to be removed for normalization of the data and average daily volumes.
Those are legs so the line doesn’t fall down.
All ~14M users quit the fediverse simultaneously on that one day and changed their mind a day later
Probably.
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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.
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.
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.
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I think the active users per half month might be a more useful metric than total accounts because that includes all the dead accounts.
Seems like nobody cares about pixelfed here
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
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"
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