Fediverse@lemmy.worldbymesa@piefed.social
7 months

Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing

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Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing

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!

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          • BremboTheFourth@piefed.caEnglish
            7 months

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

              • aMockTie@piefed.worldEnglish
                7 months

                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.

                • Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  7 months

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

                  • Hazor@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    7 months

                    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”.

            • Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              7 months

              Yeah finna boutta

              I was honestly so confused before I saw your reply to theirs, I live in the south so that’s just common lingo here

              • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                7 months

                I get my American slang through Hollywood and Internet, so the curriculum may not be entirely comprehensive at times.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7 months

        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.

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          7 months

          if it’s less niche it will be flooded with ragebait and covert ads and such. better it stays a bit more niche. that’s why i’m fine with it being a little bit more nerdy than other mainstream platforms.

        • threeduck@aussie.zoneEnglish
          7 months

          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.

          • ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.zipEnglish
            7 months

            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.

    • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 months

      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.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7 months

        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.

        • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7 months

          It didn’t take a decade for OC on smaller communities. I’ve been using Reddit since 2009. There was plenty of OC since ~2012.

          • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
            7 months

            i think OC started to increase after 45 1st term, thats when people really jumped into social media for all the drama and content, and then found more drama(like livestream, and youtube,etc). i unkowingly used reddit(dint know it existed) around '13-14 ish for a console game. only til drumpf was elected then i moved over, before that i was still on Y’a answers enough.

            • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
              7 months

              I would say Reddit became mainstream in 2015 with over approximately 100 million users. That’s when I started noticing the quality of comments start going down. That’s when people stopped having discussions and started bickering more. Before that it was a lot less hostile and the topic of discussions were more fun and informative.

              There was also a lot of OC at the time. You just needed to join subs in order to see it. But it was there.

              • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
                7 months

                thats when all the bots started, plus they were banning “QUESTIONABLE” subreddits they dint have a problem before, until the republicans started targeting social media.

                the bannability also became pretty harsh around that time.

          • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7 months

            And I used it since ~2007. Sure, I’ll concede that OC existed back then, but expectations/standards were far lower. Simply starting topics or a meme template that hadn’t been done before were fine, often times even hailed. Two broken arms, jollyrancher, coconut, whatever other gross ass viral thing weren’t even pictures/videos, they were comments and/or text posts. They became Reddit legends/mythos/lore, regardless.

            Anyway, that type of OC isn’t going to invigorate the masses like it used to. Any of those stories nowadays would be met with heavy cynicism/skepticism (rightfully so, I might add). I guess my point is, Lemmy has only been somewhat known for a couple of years. It takes a lot of time to build momentum. Reddit continues to enshittify ever further, just like Digg did. Times are different now, there’s a fuckton of competition in this type of social media format. What will make it successful is hard to say for certainty. I think sticking to link aggregation and topical discussions is a good start.

            • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
              7 months

              I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.

              The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?

              The difference will be the OC. If users don’t want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.

              I’ll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.

              We’ll see what happens I guess.

    • Carl N. Yon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 months

      Once we KICK THE TANKIES out of the THREADIVERSE we can get these numbers really cranking

      • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
        7 months

        Tankies are among the most active contributors not only to content, but also to the platforms themselves.

        Lemmy, the very platform you’re currently on, is made by one.

        I’d rather see less left infighting - that will suffice.

        • Carl N. Yon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7 months

          What are you talking about??? Tankies don’t contribute anything they just want empty handouts

          You type like a rentoid.

      • Xylight‮@lemdro.idEnglish
        7 months

        All ~14M users quit the fediverse simultaneously on that one day and changed their mind a day later

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7 months

      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!