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Not really.

Gup.pe groups were genuine ActivityPub Groups, like Lemmy communities, whereas these ‘FediGroup’ things are just Mastodon bots. They’re a ‘Service’, aka the automated version of a ‘Person’, so they’re no use to anyone on platforms (like Lemmy) that can only follow Groups.

The most similar recent thing to gup.pe is https://ovo.st/

Compare:

curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse | jq -r .type   
=> Group   
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://ovo.st/club/askfedi | jq -r .type  
=> Group

with

curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction | jq -r .type  
=> Service

Ah. That’s disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though.

Yep.

FediGroups works with all the popular server types – Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, Catodon, Friendica

Weird exclusion of all threadiverse server types, there.

Yep, but to get those features you have to access it from the piefed/lemmy instance. gup.pe/friendica style groups predate lemmy though, and were designed to be accessed from your mastodon/fediverse account, rather than being signed in to directly.

Im right now using lemmy/piefed but what other neat projects should i look into as a newcomer to this world?

Im not looking for anything in particular, i just want to expand what i use and see more projects.

BookWyrm, reading tracker and review sharing

I don’t know if it’s wrong and how much, but I’ve seen it likened to Imgur more than YouTube: a place from which you link your videos in other parts of the recovered, rather than a platform to browse videos fed by the algorithm. Sorry if I’m mistaken.

The past weeks I have worked on setting up a new Piefed based Fediverse instance: https://nord.pub.

The main “selling points” of this instance is:

• Operated and hosted in Northern Europe
  
• Committed to avoiding US-based infrastructure and cloud products
  
• Powered by Piefed
  

It is open to the world; the Nordic focus is quite loose and is mainly about geographic hosting and having a few Topics with communities in the Nordic languages. The main language will be English since that is the language of the vast majority of the Fediverse.

Community creation is open but I will not be creating any local communities that would “compete” with communities on other existing instances. However anyone who wants to create a community on this instance is free to do so, as long as it follows the rules.

Very cool!

Got it all sorted, thank you!

evil.social down for weeks

There's a Sharkey-like (Catodon) instance called evil.social. A few months ago, I created an alternate account there so I could have an alternative to calckey.world (another Sharkey-like instance) for situations where Calckey would be experiencing downtime (with Calckey itself having been an alternative for my earlier Friendica account, after Friendica began experiencing frequent downtime occurrences; eventually I ended up staying on Calckey permanently).

At the time, their ActivityPub federation capabilities didn't seem to work properly, I couldn't fetch posts/comments from other instances as well as Calckey.world can. Nonetheless, I still kept the evil.social account as an alternative.

Now, it's been a few weeks since evil.social began returning 502 (Bad Gateway).

Anybody knows what's happening with said instance? Is it temporary downtime or the instance is likely gone forever? If the latter is the case, what alternatives to Calckey.world, other than Evil.social, should I be aware of, as someone who's used both to personal micro-blogging as well as interacting with posts and comments from threadiverse, and someone who's used to write lengthy texts (so max char length matters to me)?

@fediverse@lemmy.world @fediverse@lemmy.ml

They are so evil they even take their services down to keep the bad vibes going 😭

Vote manipulation is rare, but it does happen. Some examples:

• https://lemmy.ca/post/57235699/20685355
  
• https://piefed.ca/c/comicstrips/p/527462 (recent)
  

Even after the users are banned, their malicious voting activity sticks around.

Should admins have the ability to discard votes from banned users? Should mods? If so, how do you think it should be implemented and can you think of any concerns with having that option

I still dont understand. Why not Matrix based Element or Continuwuity?

They seem to have pulled the room.

They closed the community. It’s been cool until it lasted 

Fediverse search engine Holos Discover shut down this week, showing structural issues how to distinguish between individual and community consent.

its interesting because even fecesbook has a setting for this

i genuinely don’t understand how being indexable could be considered a violation of privacy. consent, sure. but why would you want to avoid being indexed?

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.