I’ve been one of the people saying “we don’t need more users. we need quality over quantity” and i was wrong.

Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

A post from 2 days ago presented a graph that showed an important variation in the active userbase: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/52565659

Just thought I’d note this. Main beneficiary so far seems to be piefed.ca.

Has anyone tried this? It’s discord reverse engineered.

There was a discussion about this article 2 years ago here and here, but I thought it’s such an interesting a novel concept full of potential that it’s worth a repost.

Check out the tat

Following https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/c/fediverse/p/194717/we-need-more-users I decided to explore data a little bit more. I’m not the biggest fan of growth-as-as-target so I wanted to see how much the people were participating in the discussion.

On Digg there’s some drama because someone registered the community “/wallstreetbets,” and the admins took it from him and gave it to one mod of the subreddit “r/wallstreetbets.”

Central thesis: “In a world where established platforms are turning from the promised rescue of digital journalism to its danger, journalism should consider being active in the fediverse.”

I built Statistics for Strava, a self-hosted, open-source dashboard that gives you fun and detailed stats from your Strava activities. You can track any workout over time, visualize trends, and get new insights. All while keeping your data private on your own server.

For the past few years I’ve been building and maintaining website/blog at www.pragmaticcoding.ca. It’s mostly about programming, and more specifically it’s ended up having a lot of content about JavaFX with Kotlin.

Because nothing says “fun” quite like having to restore a RAID that just saw 140TB fail.

The following is a copypaste from a Mastodon post by @frida@camp.smolnet.org that I’ve linked above.

I just don’t get it. What is the freaking problem of those directors, trying to rewrite federation into some kind of dystopian tech fascism?

Came across this on the r/selfhosted community. Still very much in the alpha stages, but it’s already got a Docker image you can try out for yourself, or try out the demo server.

This app is still in early alpha but I managed to spin it up yesterday and it seemed to work pretty well during my brief testing.

good morning to what a year, huh? :ablobcatcoffee: #NYE #year2025 #picard @startrek

Edit about the 4chan image blocking, I asked Rimu directly:

Youlag is a FreshRSS extension that allows you to browse your YouTube and article feeds through a modernized design that incorporates quality-of-life features.

I was looking for a list like this one so I decided to post it for others.

To upgrade from 1.4.x:

At the beginning of last month, a crosspost to a lemm.ee community showed up in my feed - and it would seem that it showed up in mine alone.

What do you call Jeffrey Combs standing around by himself?

cross posted from https://lemmy.world/post/41385738

Hello PieFed! I feel there’s not enough content in regards to tech or self-hosting focused on us Canucks, so I started writing a blog last year. A lot of it fits into anywhere as it’s all centered on self-hosting and cybersecurity but I specifically write some posts & chunks of posts, directly for my fellow Canadians!

I am so excited!

Not my OC

The Fedimap.de is a map of the Fediverse users. Everyone can mark or unmark themselves.

GHSA-h265-g7rm-h337 (Publication in process, waiting for CVE assignment) This vulnerability would allow an authenticated attacker that is part of an organization to access items from collections to which the attacker does not belong

Modified from the original: https://piefed.social/c/grimdank/p/1676557/give-him-glory

And i repost the same post so lemmy user can see us. Sorry for the duplicate. 😅

I found an old external hdd with a bunch of unformatted media and wanted to import to my library quickly… Jellyfin does metadata collection pretty well (as of the most recent version, old versions were pretty bad at it) but requires a specific naming convention, e.g. Film Title (1900) - so, during some down time I wrote a quick little utility program in Go (so you can compile it regardless of platform) and a little registry script to add it to the right click menu if using windows.