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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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 63 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago

On PieFed it looks like a still loading icon. At first I thought my account wasn't "finished" or something!:-P

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's weird how people smell babies, and are like "smell that baby! It has baby smell!"

But at some point they stop. I'm 41, and nobody ever lifts my shirt and smells me.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecanal

(...) In 2021, inhalation of hexadecanal was found to reduce aggression in men but to trigger aggression in women. Hexadecanal is one of the most abundant substances emitted by human babies from their heads, which may be an evolutionary survival mechanism to induce mothers to defend the baby and fathers to not attack it. (...)

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

What fathers are attacking babies???

remembers the world we live in

Oh, right.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago

You just go to the wrong bars man, or so I've heard

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah but if I did do that, then somehow "I'm" the weird one... smh over here... 😜

[–] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

YES I fuckin love the 👶 emoji on Voyager! There's been a lot more and they make me smile inside like little 🌱s on FFXIV. Do other apps have them to indicate new users?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 14 hours ago

Not sure, but I'd also like to know. Sounds like a great feature!