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?
Noice
Sadly /c/piracy is blocked from .world I think.
Yeah that and the stance towards thre*ds was what showed me that I don’t want be live on .world.
I am very much aware
https://lemmy.world/post/6018317
Apparently it once was but was unblocked
That was a very helpful post, so I could make sure I was subscribed to all three communities listed and not just this one, lol.
Edit to add: on my instance there are communities that are hidden by default, but not blocked at all. If you subscribe to such a community, everything shows up like normal for you. It seems to me this is a better option for communities seen as controversial or problematic. And of course defederation is always an option when needed.
Later on there was drama because they blocked it a second time anyway. xD
E: Their second announcement: https://lemmy.world/post/13320356
Announcement stands at a high number of downvotes. The people have spoken, the admins did not listen.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any other post with 2000 downvotes and -1000 overall score. Those numbers are really big. But at the same time LW has way too many users and communities on them so I can understand them not wanting to play legal games on top of that regardless of factuality. It’s a free platform and changing instances is easy (as long you don’t have communities to move).
Tell me one single instance of .would admins not just copying reddit in terms of being a shit instance.
Well, welcome to moron city.
Well done!
Big uptick for us at bhzon recently, but a degree of magnitude less than this
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!
No, I think it’s just me on my instance (that probably has the capacity for 1000+ active users) and the steady influx of suspicious accounts that pass the email verification and captcha and then either post nothing, or post adverts get banned/deleted and it goes on.
Mind you I don’t really advertise the instance either. So that’s likely why.
I suspect people coming from reddit don’t understand the fediverse (I know I didn’t when I first got here). So they go to the hosting instance and join there, not really understanding they can join any instance and then join the community (if not already on the instance).
Kbin.life is a neat domain!
A landing page of sorts for small instances could be neat - a list of small instances welcoming new users, what their moderation policies are, software, philosophy of (de)federation, and other basic stuff.
It’s easy to find the big ones, but for those looking for smaller instances they can be harder to find.
Thanks. I think at the time I made an instance (about a year and a half ago I reckon), there was quite a batch snapping up kbin/lemmy on every tld imaginable.
It’s actually not a bad idea. “The front page of the threadiverse” so to speak. There are plenty of instance lookups out there, but they’re generally self discovered. Something that helps match a user to a smaller instance cannot be a bad thing.
Having large instances is a good thing of course, especially for hosting larger communities. But, in order to remain fully independent, smaller instances that can be run truly as a hobby on affordable hardware are essential for the fediverse in my opinion.
I think it’s also a bit utopian to expect everyone to make an informed decision about which small instance to sign up for right away. It could be nice to have a little overview ready for whoever has been using lemmy.world or some other big instance for a while, understands how the fediverse works, and wants to migrate to a smaller instance for some reason or another.
Personally I wasn’t really sure where to go after Kbin.social, and my decision on Kbin.earth was pretty random. Happy with my decision though!
I have registration application enabled and I am getting 0 registrations.
You need to somehow get your url out. Usually if you’re just “generalist” people don’t see a big reason to register compared to something like lemm.ee. Also new servers have another issue is that one doesn’t know if they’ll be around long enough. We’ve lost so many small servers in lemmy when their admins discovered it was more trouble than it was worth.
Captcha and email verification are trivially defeated by bots. If just getting lurkers is a concern, try using a registration application form like we do. Do you at least see these lurkers as MAU? (i.e. just voting)
No. I see several genuine looking users that registered and did nothing (fine I guess). But there’s a lot with very similar <somethingnnn>@gmail.com. Some don’t do anything and so far I’ve left them. Some are clearly posting advert crap and they get deleted as soon as I see it. Every now and then I just go through purge the rest that are clearly bot accounts.
If I was actually getting genuine active users I might look into making a form or otherwise making it difficult (not sure if mbin has that ability mind you). But seems I don’t really get real users. Just me, posting and commenting all day.
What? You delete the advertising bots??? Rude. What if I’m the type of person who’s up at 3am watching infomercials about the cleaning products? And now I come to Lemmy to find the advertisements telling me how to find the hot lonely singles in my area? I want the hot lonely singles! That’s a thing, right? For hot people to be single long enough to get lonely? And then they’re like “I’d date ANYONE at this point!” and that’s when I swoop in, like “You’re all out of options now! I’m in!”
And you’re just going to take that away from us? Tsk tsk tsk.
Well. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone advertising hot local singles using my instance. I’ve mostly seen medical adverts and random websites (for products not services). So, you’re not missing anything I think.
to the new users:
Ahoy, mateys
Arrrr! Welcome aboard, ye scallywags!
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
Yep! Took two tries as well. I got banned from one because literally my second comment pissed off the mod! Im already loving Lemmy.
Drag has a friend who got instance banned on first comment lmao
Lol!
Yeah it’s a bit the wild west here, you can say fuck and post about whatever you want, but there are also some intricate rules on some servers/communities but peopke are mostly very helpful. This place IMO is absolutely fantastic.
I got banned from one because literally my second comment pissed off the mod!
Gooble gobble one of us! One of us!
Lemmy is very much lacking an account migration feature.
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.
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!
Truly the real reddit experience ): lol
Same. I was on Kbin, was denied at .world (not safe enough), then landed on lemm.ee.
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?
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.
Sorry to hear
reddit actually defended the piracy subreddit? lmao
Yep. I made a point to troll then with that at the time.
/r/nerf created their communities on my instance for a migration but their base wasn’t a fan so they only use !nerf@discuss.online as a backup.
Mods try but people are not open to change.
Well, you know those guys are extremists. Their slogan is literally “It’s Nerf or Nothin’!”
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.
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.
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…
Oooooooooh, you mean like in 2001 when I was dating my first ever black girl. I was talking about how you never have breakfast foods for dinner. And she asked if I wanted chicken and waffles. I had never heard of such a dish together. I thought she was asking for two different meals, and it was weird to phrase it like that. After some back and forth, she assured me you take fried chicken, serve it WITH waffles, and cover the whole thing in maple syrup. I thought she was pranking me. So I went over, and googled it. I was suuuuure she was messing with me. Nope. It’s a real thing people in the south do. I’m from Ohio. So was she, but she has family in Atlanta. I was just…why? Just why would anyone mix those foods? Still to this day I don’t want it.
Then, after it had been well established that chicken and waffles was a thing, she asked “Have you ever heard of chitlins?”
I had not. Ignorance is bliss.
Yes something like the first thing popping in your mind when it comes to being blissfully unaware of the struggle of racism being tying together a black partner and fried chicken.
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 🤷🏻♂️
How much did spez care about violent rhetoric coming out of the donald for years before finally doing something about it. What a pos that fuckface is
Nice!
There was a post by @inlandempire@jlai.lu on !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net about it
Welcome aboard!
How do I add your piracy community to my boost app?
unfortunatly .world banned piracy quite awhile ago, you’ll need a different instance account
I see thank you
lemm.ee is a good general instance with access to c/piracy.
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Ohhh I see thank you
Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!
Welcome !
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!!!
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE LINUX DISTRO
And why is it Arch
pshaw, NixOS, Arch is too easy.
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Welcome! How are you liking Lemmy so far?
Check out phtn.app and Voyager for Lemmy (app/PWA).
Welcome to Lemmy!! We are called Lemmings over here! Or whatever you want really. I may have drank too much beer.
We are called Lemmings over here!
Lemminators
Thank you fellow lemming!
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.
Hello fellow Fedizen!!!
Hello! Now let’s go grab a beer… 🍻
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.
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!
We’d use Branston beans, but not gonna lie that looks shit hot. Would scran with a bottle of 8% cider.
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.
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).
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.
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. ;)
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.
Welcome!
My instance is small potatoes, so no new applications for me (so far). =(
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 🤦♀️
All good, social is hard and anxiety provoking!
social
Nothing against Southern California =)
Who wants a short instance name D:
Is X available?
Lemmy has a 3 character minimum though
That instance name is great!
Do you want me to make an alt? I’m not new anymore but I do account for quite some number when it comes to so called “monthly active user” ;-)
