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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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 402 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 86 points 2 months ago

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 47 points 2 months ago

What were you saying about Slackware? Who said Slackware?

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 months ago

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 months ago

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 35 points 2 months ago
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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[-] superjimboomba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 213 points 2 months ago

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

[-] wit@lemmy.world 81 points 2 months ago

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 months ago

Yes, trying my best to spread the word!

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 2 months ago
[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago

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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[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 29 points 2 months ago

WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE LINUX DISTRO

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Welcome! Happy to have you!

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[-] atomicpoet@kbin.earth 98 points 2 months ago

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 25 points 2 months ago

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

[-] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 92 points 2 months ago
[-] elidoz@lemmy.ml 78 points 2 months ago
[-] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago

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 82 points 2 months ago

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 63 points 2 months ago

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 2 months ago

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

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 65 points 2 months ago

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 2 months ago
[-] singletona@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

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 51 points 2 months ago

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 34 points 2 months ago

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 49 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

to the new users:

Ahoy, mateys

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 months ago

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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[-] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

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 2 months ago

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 27 points 2 months ago

The best instance on lemmy grows ever stronger ✊️

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Congrats to all lemming pirates !

[-] kalpol@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago
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