PieFed user surge continues! 🚀
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To the moon?
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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.
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. -
PS. you can see the graph starting from Zero:
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=2000Credit to @squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi for pointing out how.
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.
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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.Do you have another admin?
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If you're a new user, help the Fediverse grow by being active.
Make posts, comments or even communities and help this place growAlso feel free to ask questions on !newcomers@piefed.zip
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Do you have another admin?
No, I need to figure that out. You're welcome to be one.
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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
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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.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.
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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
Cool Cool, I thought you might already have a lot on your plate
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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.
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One'a these days, Alice...
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Scalloped growth is normal for social media platforms. Don't panic when it dips
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What caused the surge?
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Multiple advertisement posts on DeGoogle, a canadian subreddit and BuyFromEu.
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What is causing such sudden rapid growth?
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Multiple advertisement posts on DeGoogle, a canadian subreddit and BuyFromEu.
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A couple of successful Reddit posts. This last jump was from r/BuyFromEU.
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Scalloped growth is normal for social media platforms. Don't panic when it dips
scalloped growth
Sounds tasty and cancerous at the same time.
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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.
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.
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A couple of successful Reddit posts. This last jump was from r/BuyFromEU.
Jip it's literally like 5 reddit posts over the last week-ish
They've gotten ~700,000 views now
![irelephant [he/him]](https://anarchaos.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com/users/fO/l1/fOl1ewVetv99Whr.png "irelephant [he/him]"){kind=avatar}
