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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whaaaaa???? Last I heard there was like 60k Lemmy accounts total. What the fuck happened since October???

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Aside, looks like pixelfed is growing too?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

these stats areee... not the best? fuck i hope we dont fizzle, this better just be the begininng

[–] [email protected] 41 points 23 hours ago

46K active users is nothing to sneeze at. Most old school forums were hella active with just 1K

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Am I confused, or is that link not a forum?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

https://discuit.net/

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

Voat shut itself down. It basically speedrun the reddit refugees > reddit conservatives > reddit nazis within months and then it spent the rest of its life with nazis trying to out-nazi each other, until its owner finally realized what their version of "free speech" really means.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Posts and comments are on the rise!

(although the posts are all coming from like 3 people)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Makes me smile to see people recognizing me outside of my Screenshot posts. I didn’t realize that I was known outside of the gaming community I post in though lol