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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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 day 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 4 points 18 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 17 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 15 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 3 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day 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 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours 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.