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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[–] [email protected] 411 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (25 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 90 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What were you saying about Slackware? Who said Slackware?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, I said, "I like the slacks you're wearing." They would go nicely with a red hat.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Teach them about beans.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Adulated_Aspersion 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was there. In the ancient times.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For the uninitiated.

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[–] [email protected] 222 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

[–] wit 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Yes, trying my best to spread the word!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

Welcome!

[–] Lost_My_Mind 44 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE LINUX DISTRO

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And why is it Arch

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[–] Stovetop 26 points 1 month ago

Welcome! Happy to have you!

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 month 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 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (23 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 month ago (7 children)

2025 the year of lemmy

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (15 children)

and the linux desktop

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[–] Insecurity_man 90 points 1 month 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 64 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

That instance name is great!

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Hi, glad I joined!

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[–] singletona 59 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good, the Piracy community over on dbzer0 is much better than the subreddit anyways.

[–] pyre 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

to the new users:

Ahoy, mateys

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (16 children)

My advice to newbies is to just sign up for whatever, then change later if ya need to. I think I tried 2 other instances before i found the one that fit best for me

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (5 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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (16 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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[–] CAVOK 35 points 1 month ago (18 children)

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

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[–] Gold_E_Lox 34 points 1 month ago (5 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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month 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.