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?
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.
And like switching Linux distros, switching Lemmy instances means losing everything unless you have an external backup.
you should always have external backups for your important data anyway
you can just export/import your user settings. You only lose comment history but you can just check that from a different instance if you want to.
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.
The high drama is as hilarious as it is pathetic.