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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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

Noice

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 20 points 15 hours ago

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!

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (18 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.

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[–] wit@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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..

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

https://support.lemmy.world/quickstart/

!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

[–] wit@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

Please, don't take this the wrong way, seriously:

I find that quickstart entirely useless. How to create communities is already pretty self explanatory, as there is a button for "Create Community". The same goes for Search.

I think an image/infographic with things like "how to link users?", "how to link communities?", is much more useful, as there are no quick ways to find that out, i.e., no buttons.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 14 hours ago

No worries, you make a good point.

For your question, this post https://lemmy.world/post/8505771 is probably better (from !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca )

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 15 hours ago

Well done!

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