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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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Out of the loop here......what is /r/whitepeopletweets? And is it as racist as it sounds? Kinda seems like the type of people you don't get excited for coming over here if they banned the community.

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Nope nothing about race, the name was just an answer to blackpeopletwitter, which is the same idea. Posting screenshots of funny tweets.

There’s one here on lemmy !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

From what I’ve read the sub got ban after mods took time to delete violent comments about DOGE employees. Their names got leaked, peoples started to say dumb shit, often violent. Musk threw a fit about it and Reddit banned the sub.

Making death threats is obviously a good reason for a ban but apparently the reason Reddit gave (unmoderated sub) was false as there’s screenshots of the post being actively moderated with plenty of deleted messages. But it’s those kind of posts with 18k comments so I guess it was moving too fast for the moderator team.

I might be wrong, I just read about that from the r/france post our refugees came from. I did not explored in detail as it’s on Reddit and I just don’t care 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 minutes ago

How much did spez care about violent rhetoric coming out of the donald for years before finally doing something about it. What a pos that fuckface is

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

As far as I recall it's about blatantly "white" tweets, to underly how clueless and detached from reality they are.

But it may have warped into the stratosphere as of these days...

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Oooooooooh, you mean like in 2001 when I was dating my first ever black girl. I was talking about how you never have breakfast foods for dinner. And she asked if I wanted chicken and waffles. I had never heard of such a dish together. I thought she was asking for two different meals, and it was weird to phrase it like that. After some back and forth, she assured me you take fried chicken, serve it WITH waffles, and cover the whole thing in maple syrup. I thought she was pranking me. So I went over, and googled it. I was suuuuure she was messing with me. Nope. It's a real thing people in the south do. I'm from Ohio. So was she, but she has family in Atlanta. I was just......why? Just why would anyone mix those foods? Still to this day I don't want it.

Then, after it had been well established that chicken and waffles was a thing, she asked "Have you ever heard of chitlins?"

I had not. Ignorance is bliss.