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

submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 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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[–] dual_pyramid_reality@lemmings.world 64 points 16 hours ago (20 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

Welcome to the Threadiverse! 😁

[–] f1error@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Ditto.

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 54 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (7 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!

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 11 points 11 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

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 28 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] helios@social.ggbox.fr 10 points 13 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/

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours 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!

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

Great find!

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 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

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Could you post some recommendations?

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago

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

Enjoy!

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I only use YouTube to pirate their content

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[–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 38 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

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 17 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 14 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] statsguy@mas.to 12 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

@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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[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 points 10 hours ago

Data looks great thanks for sharing

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 108 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

The Fediverse is more stable than my country's government

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 18 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Finna guess right quick.

US?

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 26 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (10 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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