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Huge growth in Lemmy from 156k to 240k users in one day (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (12 children)

wait why? what happened today that drive so many new accounts today?

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    r/interestingasfuck and r/shittylifeprotips are both total free-for-alls. Nsfw, spez hate spam, random shitposts... I assume r/pics is still John Oliver. NSFW subs are posting Christian content.

    Reddit is kinda on fire at the moment.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Also, ModCoord finally started advertising for alternatives on their latest post. Mentioned Kbin, Lemmy, Squabbles and Tildes.

    Piracy is one that pointed directly to communities on Lemmy, but it is not that huge.

    Haven't checked others, but I'd imagine some maybe started doing so as well and there's where the growth comes from. I don't really think it's bots, so far.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Another factor is gatekeeping at Lemmy, although I haven't heard any news about that. Major Lemmy instances were very slow at accepting new users since they were manually filtering bots away.

    I'm not suggesting there was indeed some change in gatekeeping like a policy change, new looser Lemmy instances or whatever. It's just a factor people haven't mentioned here.

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