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!

        • BremboTheFourth@piefed.caEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          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
              1·
              11 months ago

              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.

                • Hazor@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  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”.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      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
        1·
        11 months ago

        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
        1·
        11 months ago

        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
          1·
          11 months ago

          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.

  • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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!

    • olenko@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Can you give me a small list of channels producing such high quality content on Peertube?

      • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        What the other commenter said, look for these instances, especially TILvids

        Other than these, some specific recommendations:

        • Gardiner Bryant (gbryant@subscribeto.me) - tech YouTuber dipping toes into PeerTube

        • Oh The Urbanity! (ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com) - urbanism and sustainable development

        • ASMR of the Fediverse (asmrfediverse@peertube.wtf) - self-explanatory, ASMR videos specifically produced and released on the Fediverse. Exclusive high-quality content!

        • Making Waves/Roots and Calluses (makingwaves@video.katehildenbrand.com & katehildenbrand@video.katehildenbrand.com) - personal/professional blogs of a marine biologist Kate Hildenbrand, both very worth a watch

        • Veronica Explains (veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube) - a very cute and non-typical Linux channel from a veteran tech enthusiast

        • Films (films@fedi.video) - old but gold public domain films

        • Historical Shorts (historical@fedi.video) - some more tapes from the past

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      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.