The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

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

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

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.

2025 the year of lemmy

I migrated from reddit today. Thanks to r/piracy post. So far it's amazing. I am using the Eternity app for Android which is the same as the Infinity app for reddit so UI is similar

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.

My instance is small potatoes, so no new applications for me (so far). =(

Hi, glad I joined!

As one of those newbies?

Hi. It is the two millionth day of September, give or take a few thousand.

For anyone new: consider investing 10 minutes to learn how lemmy works and why decentralized and open source is better than proprietary and centralized platforms like reddit.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/index.html

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

When referring to communities on Lemmy please use the proper link format. !community@instance

to the new users:

Ahoy, mateys

Good, the Piracy community over on dbzer0 is much better than the subreddit anyways.

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

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.

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.

Congrats to all lemming pirates !

The best instance on lemmy grows ever stronger ✊️

Im new to Lemmy too. Happy to be here. :)

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!

Big uptick for us at bhzon recently, but a degree of magnitude less than this

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.

I tried to join dbzer0 and got rejected without any reason—did I pick the wrong pirate (I liked Rackham on Black Sails)

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?

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..

Noice

Welcome aboard!

Well done!

Unfathomably based.

Oh man, I am both happy for the instance, and sorry for you lol. I hope you find somebody soon to help with going over all those applications. I don't envy you, to be honest.

Welcome! We've been waiting for you!

*uparrs

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).

That’s real cool to hear!

Threadiverse >>

But are they seeders of leechers?

Welcome!

Was it taken down? I don't see it. Why was it being promoted in the first place and how was it not immediately banned? I thought reddit banned anything lemmy related.

Anti Commercial-AI license

How do I add your piracy community to my boost app?

Well, welcome to moron city.

Yes surprisingly. I haven't advertised at all yet, but we had 8 people join.

Quality racism you got there. Go ahead and, defend the comments.

Oh wow, 625 user registrations. How will we ever manage to handle such a massive influx of people?

*sigh*

Nothing spectacular on discuss.online.