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The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots! (www.reddit.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 14 points 2 days ago

Couldn't imagine a piracy community on reddit feeling good about its future.

Reddit will literally change its rules to get rid of communities it doesn't like. They did it with DarkNetMarkets.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your homepage shows [email protected] and [email protected] as the most active communities, is it on purpose?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

All 3 communities are ran by UniversalMonk. Others are welcome to create ones as well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Unfathomably based.

[–] [email protected] 403 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (40 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Welcome! We've been waiting for you!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

to the new users:

Ahoy, mateys

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Sadly /c/piracy is blocked from .world I think.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

Yeah that and the stance towards thre*ds was what showed me that I don't want be live on .world.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

I am very much aware pirate captain laughing

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[–] [email protected] 217 points 4 days ago (28 children)

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago (15 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy is very much lacking an account migration feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

not a big deal if you're a week or even a month in

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Just a heads up, I see you joined lemmy.world , the dbzer0 piracy community that I think you may have come for is blocked there, so may not be able to access it from where you are.

I know it's kinda confusing.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 days ago (7 children)

2025 the year of lemmy

[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 days ago (14 children)

and the linux desktop

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Hi, glad I joined!

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (20 children)

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.