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
    3651·
    2 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

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    381·
    2 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

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      8·
      1 day 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.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 day 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
        6·
        1 day 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
          8·
          1 day 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.

    • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      2 days 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
      14·
      2 days 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
      4·
      2 days 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·
        23 hours 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).

      • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        251·
        2 days 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!

      • tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish
        131·
        2 days 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.

      • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 days 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.

    • scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      91·
      2 days 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
        251·
        2 days 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
        1·
        1 day 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
          2·
          2 days 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.

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        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.

      • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        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.

          • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            2 days ago

            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.

            • drthunder@midwest.socialEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              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.

    • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      If you’ve got a question about any of the Lemmy culture don’t hesitate to ask. We will gladly answer (^_^)

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    2 days 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?

    Edit: elsewhere in this thread people are saying that trying to link to lemmy.world fails, and trying to link to lemmy.ml fails, but you can still link to other lemmy instances?

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      50·
      2 days 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.

  • atomicpoet@kbin.earth
    94·
    2 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.