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?
As one of those newbies?
Hi. It is the two millionth day of September, give or take a few thousand.
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.
I migrated from reddit today. Thanks to r/piracy post. So far it’s amazing. I am using the Eternity app for Android which is the same as the Infinity app for reddit so UI is similar
*uparrs
Good, the Piracy community over on dbzer0 is much better than the subreddit anyways.
2025 the year of lemmy
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 splinter the Linux desktop.
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.
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!
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.
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
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
So, my second-favorite Linux distro is Arch, BTW
Teach them about beans.
And how to hold your poop in for a few days for… reasons.
I was there. In the ancient times.
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.
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?
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!!!
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.
Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!
Check out phtn.app and Voyager for Lemmy (app/PWA).
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE LINUX DISTRO
And why is it Arch
Welcome! Happy to have you!
Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!
Welcome my friend! Spread the word around. Be part of the resistance!
Yes, trying my best to spread the word!
Welcome!
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.
Welcome to Lemmy!! We are called Lemmings over here! Or whatever you want really. I may have drank too much beer.
Thank you fellow lemming!
Welcome! How are you liking Lemmy so far?
My instance is small potatoes, so no new applications for me (so far). =(
Who wants a short instance name D:
That instance name is great!
For what it’s worth, your instance name is spectacular!
Thanks! I was very lucky to get it. Finding the domain (name) is the longest part of the process for me. I go through so many permutations before actually pulling the trigger on one.
What is it? Looks like badass something but the Voyager app doesn’t scroll it.
badatbeing.social
Thanks.
Socal or social?
Edited! Haha I ruined it, the social is the whole point 🤦♀️
social
Nothing against Southern California =)
Quality racism you got there. Go ahead and, defend the comments.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 really knowing what it stands for
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/29888754
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
to any new user, or new lurker, welcome!! the begining is kinda shit, but it was as well when you started on instagram/reddit/tiktok, you just dont remember it. i dont remember my upstart into the fediverse because it has been such a short part of my independent-net journey.
I remember my start and immediate end on Bluesky. Got banned for saying the white ones were better. I was discussing Eneloop batteries!
Lol for real?
The main thing I heard about Bluesky is that it costs like $100 mill to run your own instance or something like that, so they only have one main instance for now. They technically have federation, but for all intents and purposes, it’s just another centralized corporate service waiting to be enshittified.
As far as I can tell. It tells me my profile and anything I post is restricted, never see any replies. I guess an AI moderator got upset.
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.
Whaaaaa??? Last I heard there was like 60k Lemmy accounts total. What the fuck happened since October???
Monthly active accounts vs total accounts: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Aside, looks like pixelfed is growing too?
What a terrible graph - see if you can spot the 4% daily drop…
Feel free to share if you find a better one!
The data is good - it’s interesting to see the trends - but I just don’t love the layout of how a lot of it is presented
You’re not the first one commenting on it, but it seems like it’s the only graph we have about those stats at the moment.
these stats areee… not the best? fuck i hope we dont fizzle, this better just be the begininng
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.
46K active users is nothing to sneeze at. Most old school forums were hella active with just 1K
Discuit has less than 200 commenters : https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/cauipqZt
Am I confused, or is that link not a forum?
Sorry, wrong link: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/cauipqZt
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.
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.
Posts and comments are on the rise!
(although the posts are all coming from like 3 people)
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world and @MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world, please accept your standing ovations!
:P
Noice
Holy shit! Nice!
And haven’t noticed instance specific influx but recently there are a lot of users posting/commenting that have the “baby badge” on Voyager app, meaning the account is new. Feel like this influx of new users already started last week.
Haven’t been on reddit since I deleted my account during the blackouts / API fiasco and man, Lemmy/Fediverse has been fun.
It’s weird how people smell babies, and are like “smell that baby! It has baby smell!”
But at some point they stop. I’m 41, and nobody ever lifts my shirt and smells me.
You just go to the wrong bars man, or so I’ve heard
Nice!
And to answer your last question, yes. Jlailu is having an influx of new users coming mostly from r/France. From what I’ve read they’re coming after the r/whitepeopletweets (or something like that) ban.
Nice!
There was a post by @inlandempire@jlai.lu on !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net about it
Out of the loop here…what is /r/whitepeopletweets? And is it as racist as it sounds? Kinda seems like the type of people you don’t get excited for coming over here if they banned the community.
Nope nothing about race, the name was just an answer to blackpeopletwitter, which is the same idea. Posting screenshots of funny tweets.
There’s one here on lemmy !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
From what I’ve read the sub got ban after mods took time to delete violent comments about DOGE employees. Their names got leaked, peoples started to say dumb shit, often violent. Musk threw a fit about it and Reddit banned the sub.
Making death threats is obviously a good reason for a ban but apparently the reason Reddit gave (unmoderated sub) was false as there’s screenshots of the post being actively moderated with plenty of deleted messages. But it’s those kind of posts with 18k comments so I guess it was moving too fast for the moderator team.
I might be wrong, I just read about that from the r/france post our refugees came from. I did not explored in detail as it’s on Reddit and I just don’t care 🤷🏻♂️
As far as I recall it’s about blatantly “white” tweets, to underly how clueless and detached from reality they are.
But it may have warped into the stratosphere as of these days…
Huh, we have had users signing up at a higher rate than usual, but we go through bursts and we are generally pretty low volume so I thought nothing of it. Amazing to see you make the front page!
