I did some playing around with grafana. This data is all just number of signups per day, grouped by instance.
Here you can see our recent spike in users compared to normal:
Adding in some other large instances we all got an increase in traffic, but ours seems to be more sustained:
And for completeness, compared to all of lemmy (as visible by lemmy.ca, so only things we federate with):
Reddit's announced some more changes but I suspect the whole tariff situation is pushing Canadians extra hard.
The Pitt - It's like the illegitimate child of ER and 24, it's great.
I recommend dish soap instead, smells nicer.
Shazbot!
So they can take it, modify it to fit the job description they're trying to get a commission on, get you in, collect their commission, then disappear.
Their commission is often 25% of your yearly salary.
Yes there's a crypto keypair
Bro. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Lots of people bought before musk fully revealed himself, and who would buy a used Tesla now if they tried to sell?
Hate on the people that deserve it, not the randoms who happened to buy a Tesla.
We saw a spike of users for the papaya snark community when they were banned off reddit, I think it's that.
Lemmy.ca signups per day if we go back to the start of the first exodus:
Thanks, I see it too. Let me dig!
lol yeah i saw that as soon as i posted, so i deleted mine =)
Yay!
They should be able to still recover the domain. From the top of the page "To renew this domain, please sign in to your Sav.com Account".
Just off whois on linux, but I'm not clear why it lists two different sets of dates. I'm guessing querying the root whois vs the registrar, and hexbear is currently in the process of fixing their domain which is why one set is 2026.
~$ whois hexbear.net Domain Name: HEXBEAR.NET Registry Domain ID: 2584175083_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois-service.virtualcloud.co Registrar URL: http://sav.com/ Updated Date: 2025-02-11T17:34:08Z Creation Date: 2021-01-12T00:35:22Z Registry Expiry Date: 2026-01-12T00:35:22Z >>> Last update of whois database: 2025-02-11T20:42:41Z <<< *snip* Domain Name: HEXBEAR.NET Registry Domain ID: 2584175083_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois-service.virtualcloud.co Registrar URL: https://www.sav.com/ Updated Date: 2025-02-11T17:35:29Z Creation Date: 2021-01-12T00:35:25Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2025-01-12T00:35:22Z Registrar: SAV.COM, LLC *snip* >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2025-02-11T17:35:29Z <<<
Unless the +1 year date is the registrar holding it for themselves to auction off, which seems equally likely.
