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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] 72 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I've been dual-booting for about 2 weeks now, and I've been spending so much time in Fedora Silverblue because it's just so nice. I mean, most of the shit I do is browser stuff, so I have no issues there. Most of the time I can get apps to work, but my only gripe is not being able to use NextDNS alongside Proton VPN like I did on my windows computer 😭. I just don't know how to get it to work, and idk how to revert my DNS settings in terminal back to default instead of NextDNS.

But like everything else is fine, and I can still do my schoolwork.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

I switched fully over and am in the process of degoogling and de-microsofting my life. No more easy defaults of VS Code, back to custom configuring my emacs. No more surveillance, self-hosting and encryption. No more shitty windows gaming, Linux and Proton for gaming bliss!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I finally wiped the windows partition off my main home PC last week. Feels good, man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Dam even switched over to Emacs. My dude you didn't have to go that far. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 31 minutes ago

Especially when vi is better

Fight me🤺

(I kid, I kid, but not entirely ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

No love for jetbrains?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

"So yeah! Emacs, huh?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Vscodium has been a very usable replacement for me. You lose some of the ms first party plugins (ssh being the most notable) but largely it just works otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago)

I use this extension to get SSH support for VSCodium It works great!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

With the advent of the steamOS console, you're actually correct! If it's anything like my deck it's trivial to launch it in desktop mode and use it like a normal linux desktop. This is the gateway to putting linux in front of bored kids everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago

Awww sadly it was just a rumor. https://bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux.com/post/3lhe2febew22h

Even so, hook up a steam desk to a monitor with a mouse and keyboard and that's a linux desktop, that's right now today.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

pop the champagne 🍾

we are celebrating tonight

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

the year of the ~~snake~~ lemming

On a more serious note: I wonder if the year of Lemmy will never come. Constant de-federation and churn might splinter it again, much like distros did kinda splinter the Linux desktop.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago

There will never be "a lemmy". There's no canonical "lemmy" out there. There is only 1000 independent websites, sharing select content with select neighbours.

We either accept this, or we return to corporate social media.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Not everyone wants the same flavor of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yeah conflicting ideologies may lead to a splinter-net… but this also can be just a matter of an instance users taste. This is part of the federated nature of lemmy that allows this to happen.