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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[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (19 children)

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.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 7 months ago (17 children)

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.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who is 'lemmy' though. Without someone making money there is no motivation to do that.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

All of the biggest instances could take turns running ads for themselves lol

[–] 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

If they have extra money spend some on ads? Prob better to improve seo somehow

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

All that does is cost them money for the adds, then increase their running costs by adding users.

It's good for the community, but not great for them.

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