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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?

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    61·
    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

    • wit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

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

    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Welcome! If you have any questions about the fediverse or piracy in general, feel free to post or shoot the community some questions in this thread. We’re glad you made the switch!!!

    • cevn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Welcome to Lemmy!! We are called Lemmings over here! Or whatever you want really. I may have drank too much beer.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Fwiw, I prefer Fedizen, bc it works for other things too like Mastodon, Mbin, PieFed (where I’m typing this from btw), Friendica, etc.

        But yeah, where you are, Lemming works too I suppose.

        • 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I like fedizen too, and threadiverse for lemmy,mbin,piefed, etc. (or when accessing the threadiverse through friendica, hubzilla, etc.)

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            Threadiverse does sound to me too much like Threads… but that’s dead anyway so meh, whatever, Threadiverse it is then! (Especially since iirc our usage of it predated that of Threads anyway)

            And Fedizen makes me feel so… responsible? 😎

            Now have a beer: 🍻😄

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        We’d use Branston beans, but not gonna lie that looks shit hot. Would scran with a bottle of 8% cider.

        • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I thought Heinz was the gold standard in the UK. I must try the Branston ones. Flippin’ love that pickle.

          Don’t think I’ve ever seen them in the supermarket in Ireland but my sister’s visiting from the UK on Sunday so I think I’ll place an order.

          • Gort@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            I find Heinz beans a bit watery. I prefer the supermarket own brands to Heinz… Branston’s are much better and tastier, with a thicker sauce. Still, YMMV and all that jazz.

            Oh, I forgot an annoying trivial issue: the Heinz cans don’t stack up well (lock into place with one can on top of another).

            • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              That non stacking thing annoys the piss out of me haha. It’s such a small thing and it’s deliberate to make the tin look bigger but it just means they’re taking up more space in the cupboard for lack of stacking or falling over if you do.

              Also not a huge Heinz fan. Like they’re not bad don’t get me wrong but definitely agree on the watery-ness.

              The most popular one here is probably Bachelor’s which has a thicker, richer sauce though I’m fond enough of the Lidl own brand one. That is definitely partly down to price. They’re ridiculously cheap and very decent with a fry especially if you warm them slowly to soften them.

              • Gort@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                I’ll have to try Bachelor’s beans the next time I see them, as well as Lidl’s own when I’m near their store.

                Now, what’s this thread about? Oh, yeah, pirating beans. That’s it. ;)

                • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  There are two Lidl beans. The extra 10p for the ring pull one gets you more than just the convenience. :) Worth trying both though.

                  Yaaarrrrns.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      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.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    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

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 months 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
        7·
        2 months 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
          4·
          2 months 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.

        • knexcar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          And like switching Linux distros, switching Lemmy instances means losing everything unless you have an external backup.

          • spacesatan@leminal.spaceEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            1. you should always have external backups for your important data anyway

            2. 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.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      2 months 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
      2·
      2 months 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!

  • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
    141·
    2 months 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.

      • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        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!

      • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      the year of the snake lemming

      On 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 splinter the Linux desktop.

      • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
        51·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          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.

          • 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            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

  • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    2 months 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.

  • atomicpoet@kbin.earth
    8·
    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.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

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

        • Golden Lox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          these stats areee… not the best? fuck i hope we dont fizzle, this better just be the begininng

          • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
            6·
            2 months ago

            46K active users is nothing to sneeze at. Most old school forums were hella active with just 1K

            • Pornacount128@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              It has felt GREAT at lemmy. Lot of content and great discussions. We don’t NEED more people. Yes, more people bring more diversity and that will help a lot. The one downside for lemmy is that it doesn’t have all the niche groups that reddit does but that takea time. Lemmy is maturing amazingly imo.

              • 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                3·
                2 months ago

                its a solid size, on reddit there are so many rules and it feels like screaming into a void when no one comments or views your post lol, it was only good for niche stuff, but lemmys cool because niche stuff hits the front page and everyone commenting tends to be helpful or at least they are not actively trying to be negative/unhelpful.

                What also bugged me was some subs would delete your post if it was about like a new game so their mods could post it, everyone was so extra about karma that theyd delete ppls posts to post them themselves lol.

                • 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  leaving reddit led me to some forums that are still active for niche stuff like steakunderwater, lowendtalk, etc. I kind of got used to never leaving that app for anything, didn’t realise how bad the shills were and I just assumed the advice was good like it was a decade ago.

                  The advice these days is not great, I don’t think most people active there know what they’re talking about and just answer to answer.

          • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            The typical ratio is 1:9:90, meaning only 10% are actively posting or commenting. The Lemmy numbers fit to that surprisingly well, although you would think a few more lurkers would at least vote sometimes (which Lemmy reports as active in the monthly stats). My guess is that the lurkers don’t even bother to sign in.

            • 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              First time I made an account I fd up the verification question (didnt even look), took me months to make an account again because I was annoyed I couldnt have that username on that instance because I did It wrong.

          • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Posts and comments are on the rise!

            (although the posts are all coming from like 3 people)

              • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                https://discuit.net/

                One of the more commonly recommended reddit alternatives aside from Lemmy. Goes to show how far ahead we are of any other alternative, they all have virtually no activity.

                Also note that we bottomed out around 37k in October 2024, so we have seen pretty significant growth since then, and it seems to be accelerating.

                • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  0·
                  2 months ago

                  Is voat still a “reddit alternative”? When they launched like over 10 years ago that’s how they billed themselves. Then I think their user base was mostly conservative, which might have prevented some people from trying it.

      • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        71·
        2 months ago

        Nobody is forcing you but you should really consider investing 20 minutes in learning how lemmy is different. You may think it’s not that serious but look at where popular centralized platforms are heading to, now that bad actors are taking full control the problem cannot be ignored

        • knexcar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 months ago

          If I had to read a 20 minute post just to doomscroll Elon and Linux, I’d just stick to Reddit. Whatever nefarious stuff they’re doing isn’t more valuable than 20 minutes of my real world time.

          • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Whatever nefarious stuff they’re doing isn’t more valuable than 20 minutes of my real world time.

            I’m not sure if you are trolling. 20 minutes is a random number we pick up it probably take even less and 20 minutes is not really much time, we waste more time doing more useless things

          • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I’m simply suggesting new comers to learn how this place works. If people get scared over how a software works it’s even more evidence that we need to help them understand.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      2 months 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.

    • EchoSpire@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months 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 instances when Reddit bans porn.

      • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        It’ll be interesting to see how things play out with Lemmy instances when Reddit bans porn.

        Especially as many Lemmy instances don’t want to host or moderate NSFW content. I don’t blame them, but I’m also doubtful pornlemmy alone could handle the load (pun intended).

        • EchoSpire@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Having looked at the NSFW Lemmy instance, I 100% expect the Reddit refugees will try to host their own instances. Some of them. I also expect them to be defederated pretty quickly.