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.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    12 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.

    • Fitik@fedia.io
      14·
      12 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·
        12 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·
            11 days ago

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

    • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
      81·
      12 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.

      • Jomn@jlai.luEnglish
        1·
        10 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.

    • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      9 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