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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour 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.