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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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 43 points 21 hours ago (15 children)

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.world 8 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

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.world 8 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] knexcar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours 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.

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

The high drama is as hilarious as it is pathetic.

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