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?
Big uptick for us at bhzon recently, but a degree of magnitude less than this
The best instance on lemmy grows ever stronger ✊️
Congrats! Wish you success.
Well done!
Is there some infographic or image that explains how lemmy works? It may get confusing for new people. Even myself, I have been sort of “out of” lemmy and I don’t remember how tagging or linking instances works anymore. It would be nice to get an image that explains those things to just post around for new users…
Please, don’t take this the wrong way, seriously:
I find that quickstart entirely useless. How to create communities is already pretty self explanatory, as there is a button for “Create Community”. The same goes for Search.
I think an image/infographic with things like “how to link users?”, “how to link communities?”, is much more useful, as there are no quick ways to find that out, i.e., no buttons.
No worries, you make a good point.
For your question, this post https://lemmy.world/post/8505771 is probably better (from !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca )
That’s how you link communities. As long as that community is batman@lemmy.world. See how the second time it wasn’t a link? You need the !
On Voyager, one is a mailto link hehe.
Makes sense as the app has no way to know if it’s an email address or not
for me the other useful thing would be mobile apps. I use jerboa
https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa
it’s also available on the play store
Thunder interprets both as communities, probably because a mistyped community is much more likely than a random email address.
Everyone remember to be kind to the newbies, not assume that they immediately understand for the fediverse works, and not to talk about your favourite Linux distro until the second date
Teach them about beans.
And how to hold your poop in for a few days for… reasons.
I was there. In the ancient times.
You were there when the ancient texts were written, but remember, some of us were there when the alphabet was conceived.
Thank you for keeping Lemmy lore alive, you’re doing god’s work.
And jeans
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!!!
Username checks out 😅
You haven’t been assigned your fediverse girlfriend yet ?
Nicole the Polish girl from Toronto is my fediverse girlfriend, damnit. Get your own.
“The fediverse chick!”
Oh good. It was just mass spamming. I was very confused when I got that same message from 3 different accounts, but it was the same message with the same links. I thought I was being targeted.
Yeah I got a whole bunch for whatever reason.
I can talk about Linux distros on my date? But I don’t have any dates. Oh, right.
Some supermarkets have them
Neelix, is that you?
So, my second-favorite Linux distro is Arch, BTW
If they’re coming from Reddit, they probably expect a little negging.
Why would you go on a date with someone if you didn’t know their religious opinions (favourite init system)???
The entire point of c/piracy is sharing freedom. Why would you not talk to people about Linux? (plus the torrenting tools are just so much more efficient there…)
It’s a joke on how off putting the computer nerds can be here to normies.
I mean, they’re normies… anything that’s not just a one-step process buttoned as “App” is going to give them “off putting vibe”.
And this is why lemmy can feel unwelcoming lol
Also maybe try not to harass them about which instance they choose to join (unless it’s a tanky one lmao), just try to educate them if the subject comes up. I think it’s overwhelming to jump right away into “this instance has this problem, you should move to this other one”
I say this still not having moved from Lemmy.world
Is there a problem with Lemmy.world? I joined this one to avoid tankies, but I haven’t gotten familiar with the place yet (despite moderating a community lol).
It’s fine.
The occasional complaint I see is not enough that I’ve considered moving and I don’t even remember what those were. But the great thing about the fediverse is that you can move if you want!
Very dated Lemmy version. LW users still can’t remove their uploaded media
It also blocks Tor, other instances don’t
Besides smaller complaints (every instance has their issues). .world has gotten too large. Many people have suggested that it close its doors for now so other instances can catch up.
What were you saying about Slackware? Who said Slackware?
No, I said, “I like the slacks you’re wearing.” They would go nicely with a red hat.
M’lady. tips fedora
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.
Narrator: They use arch btw.
Oh wow, 625 user registrations. How will we ever manage to handle such a massive influx of people?
*sigh*
Its actually a lot if they actively post and comment, or even if they actively upvote, we dont get that many upvotes in general for the top posts, even 100 would be a huge boost
I’m sorry but it’s just not enough. There are still way too many people on reddit.
We need that number to be in the millions, so that niche communities form and I can finally stop going to reddit for that content. I want to be done with that website sooo badly.
*uparrs
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.
How do I add your piracy community to my boost app?
deleted by creator
Ohhh I see thank you
beauty of lemmy is they only banned the community so at least ppl can tell you where to go and how to access it
unfortunatly .world banned piracy quite awhile ago, you’ll need a different instance account
I see thank you
As one of those newbies?
Hi. It is the two millionth day of September, give or take a few thousand.
I’ve noticed that every different social media medium/site has its own Eternal September moment. I think, optimistically, that we’re still before that point. If we get popular and the general population arrives, it’ll also attract the predatory ecosystem of state actors and corporate bullshit.
I think Lemmy and the Fediverse in general is resistant to that, but not immune. I expect an effort to create One Big Instance that most people use, or an oligarchy of large instances working together, like Microsoft and Gmail and co do with email.
Lemmy has a long way to go before eternal September to be sure. It’s once people don’t know individual commenters across the entire platform we might get there, but as is the regular users are unlikely to get drowned out anytime soon.
And I recognize all you motherfuckers!I mean, welcome new folks.
September beeth eternal
For the past thirty two years, and counting.
I was there at the beginning. Just a wee Luser. Such fun and wonderful times for eleven year old me to be punted into.
What the fuck did I just read?
Am I having a stroke?
Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September September was traditionally the time of new admissions in US collages and universitie. As a result of these institutes often being the first time many would gain access to Usenet September had areputation of clueless newbies flailing around until they either self selected out or adapted. In 1993 AOL gave their userbase Usenet access. Thus the term ‘Eternal September’ or ‘The September that never Ends.’
Luser: Portmantu of Loser and User. Used Derisively in some online communities in the 90’s to refer to new, and often clueless, users.
Relevant history. If you were there, you remember the call of the wild AOL’er, “Me too,” ringing 'cross the network, usually as a top-posted comment.
I didn’t realize Weird Al’s line about “me too’ing like some brain-dead AOL’er” was referencing Eternal September, he would make that reference.
Kids these days not knowing the history they’re repeating… SMH.
If you’ve got a question about any of the Lemmy culture don’t hesitate to ask. We will gladly answer (^_^)
Welcome aboard!
Quality racism you got there. Go ahead and, defend the comments.This post is taken out of context. The OP is asking for conservatives to elaborate on why they hate DEI, specifically the diversity, equity and inclusive parts respectivly
You can’t expect a mouth breather to have any reading comprehension
I’m not quite sure what you’re talking about? This is neither our user, nor our comm, (nor does it seem the post you screenshot was racist)
it’s not even this instance
And its actually a post calling out people blindly opposed to DEI without knowing what it means
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/29888754
Rheeee 🤡
Good, the Piracy community over on dbzer0 is much better anyways.
2025 the year of lemmy
and the linux desktop
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!
Dam even switched over to Emacs. My dude you didn’t have to go that far. :)
Especially when vi is better
Fight me🤺
(I kid, I kid, but not entirely ;)
I finally wiped the windows partition off my main home PC last week. Feels good, man.
“So yeah! Emacs, huh?”
Vscodium has been a very usable replacement for me. You lose some of the ms first party plugins (ssh being the most notable) but largely it just works otherwise.
I use this vscodium extension to get SSH support for remote coding. It works great!
No love for jetbrains?
It’s still commercial, proprietary software
With the advent of the steamOS console, you’re actually correct! If it’s anything like my deck it’s trivial to launch it in desktop mode and use it like a normal linux desktop. This is the gateway to putting linux in front of bored kids everywhere.
steamOS console
Wait what?
Awww sadly it was just a rumor. https://bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux.com/post/3lhe2febew22h
Even so, hook up a steam desk to a monitor with a mouse and keyboard and that’s a linux desktop, that’s right now today.
pop the champagne 🍾
we are celebrating tonight
I’ve been dual-booting for about 2 weeks now, and I’ve been spending so much time in Fedora Silverblue because it’s just so nice. I mean, most of the shit I do is browser stuff, so I have no issues there. Most of the time I can get apps to work, but my only gripe is not being able to use NextDNS alongside Proton VPN like I did on my windows computer 😭. I just don’t know how to get it to work, and idk how to revert my DNS settings in terminal back to default instead of NextDNS.
But like everything else is fine, and I can still do my schoolwork.
the year of the
snakelemmingOn a more serious note: I wonder if the year of Lemmy will never come. Constant de-federation and churn might splinter it again, much like distros did kinda splintered the Linux desktop.
Not everyone wants the same flavor of the fediverse.
Yeah conflicting ideologies may lead to a splinter-net… but this also can be just a matter of an instance users taste. This is part of the federated nature of lemmy that allows this to happen.
thats how normal social media already is, the algorithim keeps you in a bubble at least here we decide the bubble conciously, algorithims favor controversy and rollercoasters of emotion too
I don’t think defed has been that bad, and I think over time we’ll get more features to avoid having to defed (aside from illegal content or spam).
Like users being able to block users and/or communities by instance, or admins being able to set default block lists for new users, or users being able to easily share block lists.
There will never be “a lemmy”. There’s no canonical “lemmy” out there. There is only 1000 independent websites, sharing select content with select neighbours.
We either accept this, or we return to corporate social media.
