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 410 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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@lemmy.world 90 points 2 weeks 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 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What were you saying about Slackware? Who said Slackware?

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 weeks 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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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 weeks 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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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Teach them about beans.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I was there. In the ancient times.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For the uninitiated.

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[–] superjimboomba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 218 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

[–] wit@lemmy.world 84 points 2 weeks 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 33 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, trying my best to spread the word!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks 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 37 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE LINUX DISTRO

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And why is it Arch

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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome! Happy to have you!

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[–] atomicpoet@kbin.earth 99 points 2 weeks ago (22 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.

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 97 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

2025 the year of lemmy

[–] elidoz@lemmy.ml 82 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

and the linux desktop

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I switched fully over and am in the process of degoogling and de-microsofting my life. No more easy defaults of VS Code, back to custom configuring my emacs. No more surveillance, self-hosting and encryption. No more shitty windows gaming, Linux and Proton for gaming bliss!

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[–] Insecurity_man@lemmy.world 90 points 2 weeks 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 64 points 2 weeks 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 67 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

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

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

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

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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 66 points 2 weeks 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 60 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Hi, glad I joined!

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] singletona@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks 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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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

to the new users:

Ahoy, mateys

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 weeks 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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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 48 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 weeks 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

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 weeks 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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[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

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

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[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks 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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[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 31 points 2 weeks 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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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 weeks ago

The best instance on lemmy grows ever stronger ✊️

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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