As a result, our instance https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ got 625 new user registrations (of which 536 where accepted) in the past 24 hours! And the registrations are not abating even now. We still get like 10 new ones per hour!

I suspect this is probably the largest advertisement, for lemmy specifically, since the main reddit blackouts 1.5 years ago.

Have your own instances also seen an influx of new users?

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 390 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (24 children)

Everyone remember to be kind to the newbies, not assume that they immediately understand how the fediverse works, and not to talk about your favourite Linux distro until the second date

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 84 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Second date? I'm getting a date out of this now? Oh. Oh man. This is intense! I didn't even know she LIKED me! Wait....I don't even know who we're talking about!!!

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[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What were you saying about Slackware? Who said Slackware?

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh please honey, you gonna scare them. Now kids, welcome to Lemmy! Take a minute to visit and make yourselves confortable. Tomorrow I'll show you my Nobara.

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Teach them about beans.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And how to hold your poop in for a few days for... reasons.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was there. In the ancient times.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For the uninitiated.

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[–] superjimboomba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 207 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

[–] wit@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

Welcome my friend! Spread the word around. Be part of the resistance!

[–] superjimboomba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago

Yes, trying my best to spread the word!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 10 months ago

Welcome!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, what's your take on all the Lemmy.ml drama? What do you MEAN you don't know what I'm talking about??? Is this your first day on Lemmy or something? Oh, it is? Oh.

Ignore me. I'm making bad jokes.

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE LINUX DISTRO

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And why is it Arch

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[–] cevn@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Welcome to Lemmy!! We are called Lemmings over here! Or whatever you want really. I may have drank too much beer.

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[–] atomicpoet@kbin.earth 96 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m not a Lemmy admin, but from what I’m seeing, there’s been an uptick of 4,000 Lemmy registrations within the last 24 hours.

There’s now 477,048 Lemmy accounts.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Whaaaaa???? Last I heard there was like 60k Lemmy accounts total. What the fuck happened since October???

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Monthly active accounts vs total accounts: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 89 points 10 months ago (3 children)

2025 the year of lemmy

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[–] Insecurity_man@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I migrated from reddit today. Thanks to r/piracy post. So far it's amazing. I am using the Eternity app for Android which is the same as the Infinity app for reddit so UI is similar

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Just a heads up, I see you joined lemmy.world , the dbzer0 piracy community that I think you may have come for is blocked there, so may not be able to access it from where you are.

I know it's kinda confusing.

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 65 points 10 months ago (7 children)

My instance is small potatoes, so no new applications for me (so far). =(

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

For what it's worth, your instance name is spectacular!

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[–] Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 10 months ago

That instance name is great!

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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 63 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Holy shit! Nice!

And haven't noticed instance specific influx but recently there are a lot of users posting/commenting that have the "baby badge" on Voyager app, meaning the account is new. Feel like this influx of new users already started last week.

Haven't been on reddit since I deleted my account during the blackouts / API fiasco and man, Lemmy/Fediverse has been fun.

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[–] nevermore@lemmy.ca 58 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Hi, glad I joined!

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 10 months ago

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[–] singletona@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago (11 children)

As one of those newbies?

Hi. It is the two millionth day of September, give or take a few thousand.

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[–] index@sh.itjust.works 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For anyone new: consider investing 10 minutes to learn how lemmy works and why decentralized and open source is better than proprietary and centralized platforms like reddit.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/index.html

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 10 months ago (15 children)

That'll teach em! You can't just sign up, first you gotta read some 20 minute long post from gnu.org

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 45 points 10 months ago

When referring to communities on Lemmy please use the proper link format. !community@instance

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

to the new users:

Ahoy, mateys

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[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

to any new user, or new lurker, welcome!! the begining is kinda shit, but it was as well when you started on instagram/reddit/tiktok, you just dont remember it. i dont remember my upstart into the fediverse because it has been such a short part of my independent-net journey.

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[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 30 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Nice!

And to answer your last question, yes. Jlailu is having an influx of new users coming mostly from r/France. From what I’ve read they’re coming after the r/whitepeopletweets (or something like that) ban.

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[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Sadly /c/piracy is blocked from .world I think.

[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 10 months ago

Yeah that and the stance towards thre*ds was what showed me that I don't want be live on .world.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 10 months ago

The best instance on lemmy grows ever stronger ✊️

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Im new to Lemmy too. Happy to be here. :)

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Congrats to all lemming pirates !

[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...the fingers :o

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