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?

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Every reddit shock, more people register on lemmy, as it's the only valid alternative, then around 10-30% of those stick around. The more reddit enshittifies, the more shocks it will experience until a tipping point is reached.

The latest one only got weakened by reddit panicking and rolling back their "bug". My suspicion is the next time they will try to enforce it, they will first make sure all lemmy links are banned.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

For a while I was reading and posting on Lemmy, but still going over to check things out on Reddit (without an account) because Lemmy just wasn't getting enough traffic to keep interesting posts popping up. I'm having to do that less and less these days.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Honestly I never have to do it unless I'm extraordinarily bored and have nothing better to do.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I think you're probably right about that. I've always said the next big migration will be when they turn off old.reddit, but perhaps they'll be wise enough to blanket ban links to all the largest Lemmy instances by that point.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

when they turn off old.reddit

If they do that I'll open a reddit account just so I can leave reddit again. 😤

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

There's still a lot of old, useful and informative posts on Reddit that I find via a Google search. It annoys me that whenever I find one of those posts, I have to go and edit the URL to be old.reddit instead of www.reddit otherwise it's so hard to use. Like, the useful thing is in the comments, but the comments are collapsed by default, so if you search for something you won't find it until you expand those comments.

If they get rid of old.reddit I think I'm going to end up using the wayback machine to get that old post rather than trying to use that horrible new reddit interface.

[–] 4ce@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Instead of manually editing the URL you can use an add-on like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Nice. I was being lazy, I was thinking of writing my own add-on or tampermonkey script, but I didn't get around to it. I should have known there was already one out there.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

Agreed. New Reddit is terrible. I find having to flip to different pages to get to deeper replies particularly annoying.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy really needs to buy ads on Google. I know....Google is just awful.

But doing a search for "reddit alternatives", the first result is reddit.

I'd be willing to chip in some money to get that going.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Who is 'lemmy' though. Without someone making money there is no motivation to do that.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

All of the biggest instances could take turns running ads for themselves lol

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 1 points 14 minutes ago

All that does is cost them money for the adds, then increase their running costs by adding users.

It's good for the community, but not great for them.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The only link that doesn't work for me is lemmy.world.

[–] wit@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

Is that link (lemmy.world) banned reddit wide?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

They are helping us load balance.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Isn’t .world the most populous instance? Hmm…

This is interesting. I get the impression that some admin/mods truly don’t understand how the Fediverse operates. They ban one (or a few) instance name(s), but there are so many more that they might not even recognize as Lemmy links, which get past the radar.

At the same time, there are fears here that .world could become disproportionately powerful compared to other instances, due to its high user count.

So in a way, Reddit blocking traffic to .world while permitting links to other instances can benefit us all. Smaller instances gain users, which is an important step toward balancing things out and keeping any one instance from becoming too powerful. Thanks, Reddit!

(I recognize the irony of saying this while having a .world account. I wasn’t aware of its standing in Lemmy when I made it. I am also still learning the Fediverse myself and don’t know how to transfer my account to another instance yet.)

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

I just read another comment (not sure if in this thread or another) saying that lemmy.world and lemmy.ml links are banned on Reddit. No idea if it's really true or not though.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, it either errors out or hides your comment if you link it. Other instances are fine (excpet for .ml)

[–] nithou@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

world

Oh ok I'm not alone, I couldn't understand why I couldn't suscribe to the community from lemmy.worl