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?
Oh I know, I was responding to r00ty as to highlight that reg. application seems to work well as spam protection. I don’t advertise so that I don’t have to dedicate the whole server to lemmy, currently running multiple other things there aye aye