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?
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
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!!!
What were you saying about Slackware? Who said Slackware?
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.
No, I said, “I like the slacks you’re wearing.” They would go nicely with a red hat.
M’lady. tips fedora
Teach them about beans.
And how to hold your poop in for a few days for… reasons.
I was there. In the ancient times.
Why would you go on a date with someone if you didn’t know their religious opinions (favourite init system)???
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?
So, my second-favorite Linux distro is Arch, BTW
Also maybe try not to harass them about which instance they choose to join (unless it’s a tanky one lmao), just try to educate them if the subject comes up. I think it’s overwhelming to jump right away into “this instance has this problem, you should move to this other one”
I say this still not having moved from Lemmy.world
If they’re coming from Reddit, they probably expect a little negging.
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!
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! Happy to have you!
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE LINUX DISTRO
And why is it Arch
pshaw, NixOS, Arch is too easy.
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?
Welcome !
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?
these stats areee… not the best? fuck i hope we dont fizzle, this better just be the begininng
46K active users is nothing to sneeze at. Most old school forums were hella active with just 1K
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.
Discuit has less than 200 commenters : https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/cauipqZt
Am I confused, or is that link not a forum?
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.
Sorry, wrong link: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/cauipqZt
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
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
YES I fuckin love the 👶 emoji on Voyager! There’s been a lot more and they make me smile inside like little 🌱s on FFXIV. Do other apps have them to indicate new users?
2025 the year of lemmy
and the linux desktop
pop the champagne 🍾
we are celebrating tonight
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.
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!
“So yeah! Emacs, huh?”
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.
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.
Not everyone wants the same flavor of the fediverse.
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.
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?
social
Nothing against Southern California =)
Edited! Haha I ruined it, the social is the whole point 🤦♀️
All good, social is hard and anxiety provoking!
That instance name is great!
Who wants a short instance name D:
Is X available?
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” ;-)
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.
What the fuck did I just read?
Am I having a stroke?
Relevant history. If you were there, you remember the call of the wild AOL’er, “Me too,” ringing 'cross the network, usually as a top-posted comment.
Kids these days not knowing the history they’re repeating… SMH.
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.
If you’ve got a question about any of the Lemmy culture don’t hesitate to ask. We will gladly answer (^_^)
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.
Good, the Piracy community over on dbzer0 is much better than the subreddit anyways.
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.
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…
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 🤷🏻♂️
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!
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.
Are the white ones actually better though?
Hopefully at least half of them stick around; the MAU count is much more impactful in terms of post frequency and variety than the total number of users in general.
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.
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.
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.
Who is ‘lemmy’ though. Without someone making money there is no motivation to do that.
when they turn off old.reddit
If they do that I’ll open a reddit account just so I can leave reddit again. 😤
The only link that doesn’t work for me is lemmy.world.
Is that link (lemmy.world) banned reddit wide?
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.)
They are helping us load balance.
Yeah, it either errors out or hides your comment if you link it. Other instances are fine (excpet for .ml)
world
Oh ok I’m not alone, I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t suscribe to the community from lemmy.worl
Even if they don’t stick around they probably know that the days of reddit allowing stuff like piracy and rom resources is coming to a close, so even them just seeing lemmy as a fallback plan to keep in mind is a positive move in the long run.
Hi, glad I joined!
Welcome !
Welcome!
Hey, Welcome :-)
Is there some infographic or image that explains how lemmy works? It may get confusing for new people. Even myself, I have been sort of “out of” lemmy and I don’t remember how tagging or linking instances works anymore. It would be nice to get an image that explains those things to just post around for new users…
Please, don’t take this the wrong way, seriously:
I find that quickstart entirely useless. How to create communities is already pretty self explanatory, as there is a button for “Create Community”. The same goes for Search.
I think an image/infographic with things like “how to link users?”, “how to link communities?”, is much more useful, as there are no quick ways to find that out, i.e., no buttons.
No worries, you make a good point.
For your question, this post https://lemmy.world/post/8505771 is probably better (from !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca )
That’s how you link communities. As long as that community is batman@lemmy.world. See how the second time it wasn’t a link? You need the !
On Voyager, one is a mailto link hehe.
Makes sense as the app has no way to know if it’s an email address or not
On Connect it’s a lemmy.world user called batman. (The first link works properly.)
for me the other useful thing would be mobile apps. I use jerboa
https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa
it’s also available on the play store
Thunder interprets both as communities, probably because a mistyped community is much more likely than a random email address.
Noice
