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The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots! (www.reddit.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] commander@lemmings.world 12 points 2 days ago

Couldn't imagine a piracy community on reddit feeling good about its future.

Reddit will literally change its rules to get rid of communities it doesn't like. They did it with DarkNetMarkets.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 395 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 84 points 4 days 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!!!

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 days ago

You haven't been assigned your fediverse girlfriend yet ?

[-] addie@feddit.uk 17 points 3 days ago

Nicole the Polish girl from Toronto is my fediverse girlfriend, damnit. Get your own.

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[-] Anarki_ 9 points 2 days ago

Unfathomably based.

[-] superjimboomba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 210 points 4 days ago

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

[-] wit@lemmy.world 80 points 4 days ago

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

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

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

to the new users:

Ahoy, mateys

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[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Oh man, I am both happy for the instance, and sorry for you lol. I hope you find somebody soon to help with going over all those applications. I don't envy you, to be honest.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 48 points 4 days 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

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

Lemmy is very much lacking an account migration feature.

[-] 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

not a big deal if you're a week or even a month in

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[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

Welcome! We've been waiting for you!

[-] admin@lemmyusa.com 3 points 2 days ago

Yes surprisingly. I haven't advertised at all yet, but we had 8 people join.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Your homepage shows !thenewdonald@lemmyusa.com and !trumpstruth@lemmyusa.com as the most active communities, is it on purpose?

[-] admin@lemmyusa.com 1 points 1 day ago

All 3 communities are ran by UniversalMonk. Others are welcome to create ones as well.

[-] Insecurity_man@lemmy.world 81 points 4 days 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 61 points 4 days 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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[-] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 91 points 4 days ago

2025 the year of lemmy

[-] elidoz@lemmy.ml 76 points 4 days ago

and the linux desktop

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 49 points 4 days ago

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

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 51 points 4 days 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 4 days 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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[-] atomicpoet@kbin.earth 96 points 4 days 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.

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[-] nevermore@lemmy.ca 58 points 4 days ago

Hi, glad I joined!

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[-] singletona@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days 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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[-] ada 18 points 3 days ago

Big uptick for us at bhzon recently, but a degree of magnitude less than this

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 65 points 4 days ago

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

[-] 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

also grabbed hardlyread.ing and hardlysleep.ing, I love that the fediverse shows the instance name, its just fun

[-] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 points 2 days ago

Posted on the wrong account here, mlem letting you swap during comment is clutch if anyone is looking for an ios app

[-] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 points 2 days ago

Lol I added an is. prefix

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[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 65 points 4 days 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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