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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[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

when they turn off old.reddit

If they do that I'll open a reddit account just so I can leave reddit again. 😤

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

There's still a lot of old, useful and informative posts on Reddit that I find via a Google search. It annoys me that whenever I find one of those posts, I have to go and edit the URL to be old.reddit instead of www.reddit otherwise it's so hard to use. Like, the useful thing is in the comments, but the comments are collapsed by default, so if you search for something you won't find it until you expand those comments.

If they get rid of old.reddit I think I'm going to end up using the wayback machine to get that old post rather than trying to use that horrible new reddit interface.

[–] 4ce@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Instead of manually editing the URL you can use an add-on like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Nice. I was being lazy, I was thinking of writing my own add-on or tampermonkey script, but I didn't get around to it. I should have known there was already one out there.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Agreed. New Reddit is terrible. I find having to flip to different pages to get to deeper replies particularly annoying.