PieFed user surge continues! 🚀

[cethin@lemmy.zip]

If by “direct traffic” you mean to send them there, then I’d say we don’t need that, and shouldn’t want it. The whole reason federation works is because control is spread out. Giving one, or a few, instances control of most of the content and users is a horrible idea and begging for issues. Speaking of, if you’re on lemmy.world, you should consider spreading elsewhere. At least don’t send new people there.

[ash@piefed.social]

Yeah, for me its my city subreddit, but then again, its just lots of comments from people in neighbouring cities going on about how shit it is or how arrogant we are. Anyway, welcome too!

[badabim@lemmy.world]

Even if the graph not starting at zero could be misleading, a spike doubling the number of active user is still impressive.

[fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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.

[biltong@piefed.co.za]

Yea I said the same in my other post, here is the graph form zero

You can view it like this: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1200

[atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone]

i love living in lgbtqia country

[rimu@piefed.social]

A day later and it’s still going up at the same rate!

[unfinishedprojects@lemmy.zip]

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?

[skavau@piefed.social]

Piefed is also a part of the Fediverse, and reads Lemmy instances. Lemmy.zip also has a Piefed server at http://piefed.zip.

[rimu@piefed.social]

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

[unfinishedprojects@lemmy.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).

[unfinishedprojects@lemmy.zip]

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!

[skavau@piefed.social]

Yes, you would

Currently Piefed has tools lemmy doesn’t: emote reactions, flairs, hashtags, polls, events, scheduled posts, feeds

[biltong@piefed.co.za]

It’s actually going up even faster!!

[bullerfar@lemmy.world]

So we don’t see posts from piefed in here?

[skavau@piefed.social]

No, you do. You are commenting on a piefed post to a piefed user.

You just don’t get all the extra bits I mentioned

[die4ever@retrolemmy.com]

A small instance isn’t going to grow past PieFed.social in 1 day, let alone an actually big instance like Lemmy.world. If an instance grows too big then we just stop suggesting it and pick a new instance to suggest.

[cethin@lemmy.zip]

People still direct people to Lemmy.world. A lot of people don’t understand the benefits of federation still and want everyone on one instance. They won’t stop when an instance gets too large.

[die4ever@retrolemmy.com]

Well yeah but those aren’t the people reading this thread

[cethin@lemmy.zip]

I don’t know. I wouldn’t be so sure. It’s a good idea to spread the message anywhere.