PieFed user surge continues! 🚀

[biltong@piefed.co.za]

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.

[cabbage@piefed.social]

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.

[blaze@piefed.zip]

Do you have another admin?

[blaze@piefed.zip]

Also feel free to ask questions on !newcomers@piefed.zip

[biltong@piefed.co.za]

No, I need to figure that out. You’re welcome to be one.

[blaze@piefed.zip]

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

[cabbage@piefed.social]

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.

[biltong@piefed.co.za]

Cool Cool, I thought you might already have a lot on your plate

[cabbage@piefed.social]

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.

[naiboftabr@infosec.pub]

One’a these days, Alice…

[irelephant@anarchist.nexus]

Scalloped growth is normal for social media platforms. Don’t panic when it dips

[13igtyme@piefed.social]

What caused the surge?

[skavau@piefed.social]

Multiple advertisement posts on DeGoogle, a canadian subreddit and BuyFromEu.

[vorticity@lemmy.world]

What is causing such sudden rapid growth?

[skavau@piefed.social]

Multiple advertisement posts on DeGoogle, a canadian subreddit and BuyFromEu.

[rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social]

A couple of successful Reddit posts. This last jump was from r/BuyFromEU.

[atro_city@fedia.io]

scalloped growth

Sounds tasty and cancerous at the same time.

[biltong@piefed.co.za]

Thanks, it’s quite fun to setup and run an instance and helping the community grow.
Hopefully I can get a bunch of South African and Africans to join my instance.

But anyone is welcome.

[biltong@piefed.co.za]

Jip it’s literally like 5 reddit posts over the last week-ish

They’ve gotten ~700,000 views now

[sirhaxalot@nord.pub]

I’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)