cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/45160218

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/45160073

I’ve been working on Habitat for the past two years. It all stemmed from this idea that I posted in April 2024.

Habitat is a free open-source, self hosted social platform for local communities. It is aimed at fostering local community discussions and discovery of areas of interest. This is why it is built primarily around location. A Habitat instance centers on a specific area, and the local community can make generic posts about that area, or they can make posts about specific locations in that area. More about what I’ve been building and the future plans here.

Features

• Habitat specification of location and size - enabling posts related to the local area
• Home feed - Displays the most recent posts
• Nearby feed - Displays posts sorted by proximity to the user
• Create posts - Upload photos, set locations, comments
• Categories - Location rules
• Amazon S3 image storage option
• Personalisation - Overrides Habitat defaults per user: kms/miles, hidden categories
• Moderation tools - User, post, comment moderation, block email addresses
• Announcements - Scheduled announcements
• Public moderation log - Keep moderator actions visible for 30 days

If you’re interest in this at all, please give it a spin and let me know how you get on. I’ll keep an eye here on Lemmy, but you can also post to the Habitat discussion board on GitHub.

That’s an interesting idea. I think this would be most successful in a city that prides itself on being high-tech. Maybe somewhere in Japan or somewhere in Silicon Valley or something.

Nice that doesn’t sound too hard

Monthly Active Users:
| Software | Current | Yesterday | Last Week | Last Month | 3 Months Ago | 6 Months Ago | 1 Year Ago |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 5460 | 4923 | 4738 | 2041 | 1595 | 1666 | 260 |
| Lemmy | 40727 | 36996 | 36510 | 35385 | 35571 | 40133 | 47182 |
| Mbin | 822 | 811 | 795 | 749 | 753 | 906 | 860 |
| Threadiverse | 47009 | 42730 | 42043 | 38175 | 37919 | 42705 | 48302 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 1136727 | 741297 | 749916 | 729258 | 672733 | 690496 | 877236 |
| Pixelfed | 115634 | 100508 | 103924 | 114965 | 82325 | 96797 | 304563 |
| Peertube | 41313 | 28211 | 29431 | 27906 | 26560 | 23452 | 34627 |
| Loops | 8006 | 7961 | 7706 | 2613 | 1840 | 26939 | 26110 |
| Bookwyrm | 1616 | 1338 | 1460 | 3759 | 2846 | 3020 | 7005 |
| Friendica | 2627 | 1593 | 1578 | 1411 | 1353 | 1732 | 4279 |
| Forgejo | 121 | 86 | 501 | 507 | 419 | 327 | 644 |
| Funkwhale | 269 | 225 | 233 | 266 | 199 | 248 | 483 |
| Flohmarkt | 30 | 27 | 37 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 1353352 | 923976 | 936829 | 918888 | 826201 | 885716 | 1303249 |

Difference:
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Months | -6 Months | -1 Year |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 537 | 722 | 3419 | 3865 | 3794 | 5200 |
| Lemmy | 3731 | 4217 | 5342 | 5156 | 594 | -6455 |
| Mbin | 11 | 27 | 73 | 69 | -84 | -38 |
| Threadiverse | 4279 | 4966 | 8834 | 9090 | 4304 | -1293 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 395430 | 386811 | 407469 | 463994 | 446231 | 259491 |
| Pixelfed | 15126 | 11710 | 669 | 33309 | 18837 | -188929 |
| Peertube | 13102 | 11882 | 13407 | 14753 | 17861 | 6686 |
| Loops | 45 | 300 | 5393 | 6166 | -18933 | -18104 |
| Bookwyrm | 278 | 156 | -2143 | -1230 | -1404 | -5389 |
| Friendica | 1034 | 1049 | 1216 | 1274 | 895 | -1652 |
| Forgejo | 35 | -380 | -386 | -298 | -206 | -523 |
| Funkwhale | 44 | 36 | 3 | 70 | 21 | -214 |
| Flohmarkt | 3 | -7 | 4 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 429373 | 416530 | 434462 | 527128 | 467606 | 50073 |

Change (%):
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Months | -6 Months | -1 Year |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 10.9% | 15.2% | 167.5% | 242.3% | 227.7% | 2000.0% |
| Lemmy | 10.1% | 11.6% | 15.1% | 14.5% | 1.5% | -13.7% |
| Mbin | 1.4% | 3.4% | 9.7% | 9.2% | -9.3% | -4.4% |
| Threadiverse | 22.3% | 30.2% | 192.4% | 266.0% | 219.9% | 1981.9% |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 53.3% | 51.6% | 55.9% | 69.0% | 64.6% | 29.6% |
| Pixelfed | 15.0% | 11.3% | 0.6% | 40.5% | 19.5% | -62.0% |
| Peertube | 46.4% | 40.4% | 48.0% | 55.5% | 76.2% | 19.3% |
| Loops | 0.6% | 3.9% | 206.4% | 335.1% | -70.3% | -69.3% |
| Bookwyrm | 20.8% | 10.7% | -57.0% | -43.2% | -46.5% | -76.9% |
| Friendica | 64.9% | 66.5% | 86.2% | 94.2% | 51.7% | -38.6% |
| Forgejo | 40.7% | -75.8% | -76.1% | -71.1% | -63.0% | -81.2% |
| Funkwhale | 19.6% | 15.5% | 1.1% | 35.2% | 8.5% | -44.3% |
| Flohmarkt | 11.1% | -18.9% | 15.4% | 500% | % | % |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 46.5% | 44.5% | 47.2% | 63.8% | 52.8% | 6.5% |

• Note: Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by the website.
  
• Source: Fediverse-Observer
  
• Caveats: Only using 1 source, using two different sets of data within the same source (why 6 month and 1 year data seems off compared to the others, I didn’t dig through the code to figure out why that would be).
  

Takeaways:

• Big growth in the Fediverse this week (ex. Mastodon >50%, Lemmy and Piefed >10%). Looks like the Fediverse-Observer software updated yesterday and found(?) a bunch of previously unknown servers (10-50%). Due to the change, my API code now works and made this post far easier :)
  
• Piefed and Loops had positive growth each day last week
  
• Congrats to Piefed (>5000 MAU) and PeerTube for reaching All-Time highs (>40,000 MAU)
  
• Forgejo lost a server in the last week that had ~80% of its users (20260217)
  

Mods: Again, feel free to delete if its not appropriate in the community.

Mastodon is for following people, Lemmy etal are for being involved in and with like minded things.

Thanks for finding that and pointed it out.

I looked through the lists of servers for most of the listed software and found a couple more examples. I wasn’t able to find duplicates in some of the software, and the few I did find, wouldn’t account for the entire update induced MAU increase:

• Mastodon (625k of 395k)
• Lemmy (4.5k of 3.7k)
• Pixelfed (5k of 15k)
• Peertube (4k of 13k)

Either way, I’ll reach out to the Fediverse-Observer dev and let him know of the issue.

People love to criticize the marketplace of ideas and sure it’s imperfect… but what’s he alternative?

Ban Zionists and Nazis and Fascist from all aspects of the public sphere.

Sure, if you have total power over the media ecosystem. But we don’t.

So the question has to be asked–are you banning Zionism from the public square or simply exiling anti Zionism into a small echo-chamber where no one will hear it anymore and Zionism will go unchallenged? This is my problem with this approach.