The Sunday morning before the subs going dark:
88,881 Lemmy/kbin accounts

The following Saturday morning/as I write this:
185,142 Lemmy/kbin accounts

  • atocci@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    A lot of the 88,000 accounts were made in the week leading up to the blackout as well. I started looking elsewhere as soon as Lawrence announced Sync was shutting down instead of waiting for the blackout to start.

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      1 year ago

      Yep, I made my account just before the blackout started because I knew there would be chaos when the big wave hit.

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      1 year ago

      I have done the same with Apollo announcement. I created my kbin account a few days before the blackout, just in case it would be to difficult to register during the blackout.