• cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    37·
    11 days ago

    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. :)

    • marighost@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      11 days ago

      It’s absolutely worth it to give to the Piefed project for how much effort these folks put in. If I were a developer I’d contribute that way, too.

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    35·
    11 days ago

    We need some new (a couple) of general-use instances to help direct this traffic! Piefed.social will help you and redirect traffic to you.

  • biltong@piefed.co.zaOPEnglish
    20·
    11 days ago

    If you’re a new user, help the Fediverse grow by being active.
    Make posts, comments or even communities and help this place grow

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
      12·
      11 days ago

      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.

    • badabim@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

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

    • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      11 days ago

      Yes, MAU is a bit misleading like that… Maybe 20% of them will stick around if we’re lucky.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        still a win. i’d rather the people who like it and put in effort stay than be awash with people who aren’t bringing much. the biggest is the more people who try it and decide to stay the more diversity of thought we’ll get. the threadiverse has a very eurocentric bias (here being the sociological construct, US and Canada both contribute to eurocentricism). i don’t presume this will be fixed in this bump, but it is an opportunity for us who are already here to listen to new voices

  • UnfinishedProjects@lemmy.zip
    15·
    10 days ago

    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?

    • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      10 days ago

      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
        3·
        10 days ago

        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!

      • Leather@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 days ago

        Honest question here. Since it’s all the same stuff… why do I as a fediverse user care about piefed if it’s basically an admin toolbox?

        It’s cool admins have good tools to minimize workload., but beyond that?

            • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              9 days ago

              PieFed. Just make an account and follow the onboarding. You’ll start noticing differences immediately.

                • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
                  1·
                  9 days ago

                  Yep. You can export your settings from Lemmy and import then into your PieFed account, so all your community memberships and blocks will be replicated.

                  Registration is currently closed on piefed.social due to a DDoS so try any other.

      • UnfinishedProjects@lemmy.zip
        4·
        10 days ago

        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).

  • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    121·
    10 days ago

    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.