cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/35072029

Peertube is now popular than Lemmy according to Fedidb monthly user activity.

The peertube (463.8k) registered accounts is only 1893 users behind lemmy’s (465.7k) Userbase.

I’m really glad more people are seeing the value of the video platform.

The recently released app on the playstore has 1k downloads.

The app store has 2 reviews while the play store has none. Thats funny as android users tend to review more often.

  • Twoafros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    Great news!

    Its still early, but Im trying to use Peertube more and more. Im trying the habit of searching a topic on Peertube first instead of the other site

        • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
          15·
          7 days ago

          True. Also the whole atmosphere of the community matters. And how useful a platform is. And not everybody likes arguing about things. But passively consuming videos is a different story. And the videos are embedded into other websites and Lemmy isn’t. Also a that size every single creator and their followers make a difference.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    The Fedidb graph of active Peertube users shows a huge bump from September to October - an increase of more than 10 000, coming from just over 20 000 in September.

    Does anyone have any idea what happened there? Did Peertube change how active users were counted?

    Sadly, the nature of some of the biggest Peertube instances makes the whole thing a bit less joyful. The fourth largest instance is obviously dedicated to gore, based on its name. I’m care about my eyes too much to check out the others on the list, beyond libre.video which is fine.

    • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      It’s probably because a whole bunch of people got their videos fed into AI and a whole bunch of AI channels popped up in YT

    • Fitik@fedia.io
      14·
      7 days ago

      I think the mobile app was released around that time, that’s probably what happened

      Edit: I was wrong, the mobile app was released in December, I’m unsure what happened then

      • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
        9·
        6 days ago

        I thought it was released more recently, but you’re right, the first version was published in September. Still, it seems like a huge bump in users for the release of an app that currently has just north of 1k downloads on Android - and it’s strange that the growth is so contained within one month. I think there’s probably something going one here related to how users are counted.

          • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
            5·
            6 days ago

            Ah, yikes - that’s what I thought. Never imagined a French software company could lower themselves to M/D/Y haha.

      • Jomn@jlai.luEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Thanks to your comment (and this post), I discovered that Rawb now has a peertube instance. I used to follow him when he was actively doing pokémon nuzlocks and also URealms.

    • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
      81·
      6 days ago

      Based on the most active servers in that list, I would guess that either something is up with those numbers or the biggest instance actually is a let’s play fan website, and a significant amount of the growth is coming from similar projects.

      It is definitely not because of the mobile app, however.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    7 days ago

    I might be totally wrong here, but I think this is people trying to learn linux in anticipation of Windows 11.

    Last time I looked at peertube EVERY video was a linux tutorial. So if there’s an influx of people watching linux content, but no influx of linux users, that tells me these are non-users trying to learn what they don’t know.

    With that said, my source is my ass, and I may have a huge bias, as I’M currently trying (and failing) to learn linux. I hadn’t considered peertube, but logically now that you mention it…maybe I SHOULD try peertube! I mean it makes sense, right?

  • confuser@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    Anyone know what happened to peertube.wtf?

    When I search for it I am greeted with “502 bad gateway open resty”

    I was using it and enjoying it a lot for a couple months then it started that and haven’t been able to access it since.

    If I recall @meldrik@lemmy.wtf operates it?

  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    That’s great news. The actual number of viewers will be higher too because not everyone who’s watching a video will be logged in to a PT account.