Piefed monthly user activity has increased by nearly 500 in 3 days.
Just thought I’d note this. Main beneficiary so far seems to be piefed.ca.
Submitted 2 days ago by Skavau@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Piefed monthly user activity has increased by nearly 500 in 3 days.
Just thought I’d note this. Main beneficiary so far seems to be piefed.ca.
Is there any particular reason for this?
Some promotional posts were made on Reddit in the right comms, although none of them specifically exploded - albeit one was made also in r/buyCanadian and it seemed to surge.
Reddit also upped the enshittification but i cant remember why.
cant be reddit bans, they have largely laid off the massive bans. although i have heard they upped thier methods of detecting would be ban evasion methods.
One of my friends finally joined for two reasons. First he was disgusted by the Reddit ICE ads, and second he realized his Reddit feed was half shit he doesn’t subscribe to.
That’s actually also the reason I am here, lol. Reddit feed. has gone down the drain, although I don’t get Ice ads. I ain’t American.
A few posts on subreddits, see !fedigrow@lemmy.zip and !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
The 3 posts I made on reddit promoting the Fediverse and PieFed got over 300,000 views together.
More people getting involved in fedigrow could see much higher numbers, but let’s not spam.
I’m just waiting for my clients to be able to show a list of my upvoted items like they do for Lemmy.
Everyone knows this. This is also just piefed.social.
Linking so people see it.
Isn’t that the instance of the dev?
That was an interesting read.
Seems like piefed should fix a lot of that. For some of it, at least make it configurable and not hard coded. But that blocked user stuff seems like a real problem.
Most of it is configurable and off by default. But the haters don’t mention that.
As i asked there, which is the 4chan image blocking as the checks there simply say images from 4chan cause reputation loss.
I know you are amazing at promoting the fediverse but feels odd to see you ignore all the issues people bring up about piefed
Good
Welcome new users!!
Greetings to South Africa
Been looking to migrate off .ml, can y’all sell me on switching to piefed?
Piefed has so many issues. It’s great at adding new features, but it’s so bad at free speech.
See this: lemmy.ml/comment/23662293
A bunch of tankies whining around anti-spam/bot, anti-AI and defederating from tankie instances. I see no problem here.
Deal breaker for me. Although Lemmy is not all that tolerant of dissenting views either I hear.
Piefed has some neat features unique to it, such as:
Way more features, actually gets updates, and awesome devs who take on feedback and make changes.
Been looking to migrate off .ml,
Why out if curiosity?
That graph looks nice. There’s also new instances popping up. Looks like healthy organic growth.
Congrats!
Is this new users or users switching from Lemmy ?
Reddit adverts, so many new users
Is some new drama going on over there lately?
I’ve been on the microblogging side of the fediverse for some time (the misskey style forks), but really started to miss forum style discussion. 8 joined Lemmy and realized that a huge portion of comments simply weren’t displaying on that instance, so I moved to Piefed and am really happy with it so far. There’s a lot of features that I like.
We’ve even been seeing the growth here on MULTIVERSE
I wouldn’t expect new users to donate within their first few days on the site
Okay? It’s still a massive surge of new users relative to older growth.
Which is not useful if those users are people who try out the platform and then abandon it, or worst bots for state actors.
Donating is great, sure, and they’re probably more likely to stick around if they paid, but just because someone isn’t donating doesn’t mean they won’t be active in the comments or by making posts. Not to mention they might spread the word to friends, some of whom might donate.
BB84@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I wonder, would these users still use PieFed if they have seen its codebase? Maybe it can be one day but right now it’s 100% not production-grade software. Nonsensical hardcoded bans and blocks everywhere. >1000 lines of Python in a single file. Uses regex to parse HTML. The list goes on…
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
I see we are having fun these places!
Skavau@piefed.social 2 days ago
If the code is bad, you realise only coders would notice it from reading that?
And most people are not coders. What hardcoded bans are you referring to here? The 4chan one that can be disabled?
BB84@mander.xyz 2 days ago
How about this one? ‘enoughmuskspam’ and ‘political_weirdos’ are hardcoded banned.
Also “can be disabled” does not excuse hardcoded filtering. If they’re serious they could implement a config system in an hour.
punkisundead@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Why should we only use “production-grade software” software on the Fediverse? Isnt the beauty that we can use all kind of software as long as it interacts decently via the relevant protocols?
Also I am already using Lemmy, which is pretty known for its opinionated devs. This does not seem to be anything that would stop, especially when I can actually read the code as its in a language I can atleast understand somewhat
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 day ago
The opinions of the devs have so far (at least as far as I know) not spread into the actual code though.
BB84@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I just want to make sure people know what they’re getting into before they decide to use PieFed. If you know about the issues and decide to use it, I totally respect that decision.
Blaze@piefed.zip 1 day ago
https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1005977/piefed-admin-settings-that-allow-to-enable-or-disable-content-filters-they-are-disabled-by
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Sadly refactoring is frowned upon in a lot of places as it takes away from adding new stuff, especially when necessary to prevent the code from getting worse