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?

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 hours 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

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      But not .world or .ml? I got an account in both and I didn’t know those places were disliked until I started getting automatic bans only for being in those instances.

      Anyway, that’s why Lemmy is so good, just figure out later where you wanna go. The first thing to really understand is that one Lemmy instance is similar to Reddit while another instance is also similar to reddit but all instances are independent of each other and Lemmy is not reddit at all.

      You can have a Lemmy purely focused on sex stuff while another might be about painting or maybe another is owned by a church or a bakery. The Bakery might like the church and the sex stuff. The church one might only be federated to the bakery and painting one. Its not just that an instances can have many different channels, but each instance can have channels with specific focus. Or even an instances for your local diy business or a 18 year old who rally wants us to see what’s in between his legs. Lemmy is definitely far from what reddit is.

      • LinuxEnjoyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        But not .world or .ml? I got an account in both and I didn’t know those places were disliked until I started getting automatic bans only for being in those instances.

        Having to read through the entire lore of lemmy and get informed on all the instances and relationships between them seems like a nightmare. You make an account on one instances then after few days you get told that your instance is literally satan and you should switch to a different one. It’s like with Linux distros. No mater which one you pick, you chose wrong.

        • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 hour ago

          I am on .world and honestly I don’t care that much.

          It’s defederated from the places I don’t wanna see, and I mostly look through the All feed, not the local one.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      Yep! Took two tries as well. I got banned from one because literally my second comment pissed off the mod! Im already loving Lemmy.

    • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      I make like 10 accounts before i found one that worked for me. Luckily i can log them all into sync for lemmy and switch between them when im doom scrolling so i can doom scroll the same content 10 times before bed!

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Is this really just the “backup site”? Boo, I say. Boooooo.

    Also, wasn’t Reddit banning links to Lemmy or something? Maybe that was only in the run-up to the IPO?

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      It’s not really the backup since last year, but the primary, but reddit won’t let me shut down /r/piracy and the other mods who took over my top spot after reddit removed me still believe in reddit, so they refuse to leave and call lemmy still the backup.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Oh wow, 625 user registrations. How will we ever manage to handle such a massive influx of people?

    *sigh*

    • EchoSpire@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      It’s a bit of a mixed experience. Overall, federation has its benefits, but it also tends to encourage cliquish behavior among groups. Sometimes, entire servers get blacklisted for various reasons. Reddit has a lot of corners that don’t violate its current ToS but are generally ignored by the community at large. These are NSFW spaces usually. In federation the ToS isn’t usually about pleasing the most people and pulling them into your platform, it’s more about the ideals of your server admin team. That’s a good thing, I suppose. It’ll be interesting to see how things play out with Lemmy federations when Reddit bans porn.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Especially important to understand decentralization when it comes to topics like piracy. Unlike Reddit, a non-commercial Lemmy instance isn’t going to be shut down by a CEO who is worried about how it might affect their ability to sell ads. But, admins can get threatened, they can get overwhelmed, they can get hit by a bus. It’s good to know how how to find other communities on other servers, etc.

  • maccentric@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I tried to join dbzer0 and got rejected without any reason—did I pick the wrong pirate (I liked Rackham on Black Sails)