piefed.nullspacePieFed user surge continues! 🚀
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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.
I 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.
Do you have another admin?
No, I need to figure that out. You’re welcome to be one.
Thank you for the offer, but I don’t have the sysadmin skills, and I already have a bit too much on my plate as you can guess 😅
Cool Cool, I thought you might already have a lot on your plate
Quokk.au is general use and international.
Seems like a nice occasion for a reminder that this stuff is all made and run on a volunteer basis. There are many ways to contribute, but the easiest by far is by donating a little bit of money on a regular basis! Don’t be deterred by feeling you have to give a lot - if a lot of people give a little that’s much better. So give a little!
I use Liberapay, but patreon and ko-fi links are available under the “Donate” menu entry at piefed.social. The average LiberaPay contributor gives less than a dollar per week—which is awesome.
Alternatively, if you’re on another instance, consider giving a little bit to your instance to help keep it running! It’s all running on love and goodwill, and it works precisely because people like you decide it’s worth contributing. :)
It’s absolutely worth it to give to the Piefed project for how much effort these folks put in. If I were a developer I’d contribute that way, too.
To the moon? 😅
💎 ✊
Hodl
One’a these days, Alice…
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.
still 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
What caused the surge?
Multiple advertisement posts on DeGoogle, a canadian subreddit and BuyFromEu.
And Trump for threatening to invade Canada and Greenland.
If you’re a new user, help the Fediverse grow by being active.
Make posts, comments or even communities and help this place grow
Also feel free to ask questions on !newcomers@piefed.zip
PS. you can see the graph starting from Zero: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=2000
Credit to @squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi for pointing out how.
It seems people stuck around after to a pretty exceptional degree after the previous surge in June last year, when the number of active users was multiplied by four within a little more than a month. Hopefully the same will be true this time around!
Also curious what’s next for this graph. Doesn’t really seem to be slowing down.
What is causing such sudden rapid growth?
Wow this is great!!
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 more than double, but not as exponential as the graph shows.
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?
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
Ah, ok. This clears it up a bit. So it’s moreso about the communities that are hosted on a piefed instance - as they have better moderation tools.
Thanks!
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
A day later and it’s still going up at the same rate!