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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?

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    1 day ago

    It’s weird how people smell babies, and are like “smell that baby! It has baby smell!”

    But at some point they stop. I’m 41, and nobody ever lifts my shirt and smells me.

    • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecanal

      (…) In 2021, inhalation of hexadecanal was found to reduce aggression in men but to trigger aggression in women. Hexadecanal is one of the most abundant substances emitted by human babies from their heads, which may be an evolutionary survival mechanism to induce mothers to defend the baby and fathers to not attack it. (…)