None. Although I've never asked
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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0 and I hope I never meet any of you.
Lemmy? I canβt even get them off the goddamned Facebook.
Ha, I have a few of those myself
Trick question. I'm the only real user on the internet. Nice try.
I've never met anyone in person who's even heard of Lemmy. Well, at least whenever it's brought up π
Any time Iβve brought it up everybody glazes over the first time I say the words βinstanceβ or βfederated.β Iβve tried the email analogy, but they lose interest immediately.
Call them "communities", not "instances", that might work better
This made me think about my struggles with trying to learn moves in fighting games.
The tutorial canβt tell me the move with actual button combinations. No. Instead I have to read it as punch + kick + grab first. And because Iβm a frigginβ noob, I have to try to interpret what buttons those actions are.
How is this relevant? It really isnβt, the more I think about it. Bad comparison. Ah well. At least you know how sad I am at fighting games now.
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Yeah it's an annoying stumbling block. Blue Sky "fixed" that by only having one instance.
It feels like there should be a sign up page that just gives users a default instance (randomly selected from the top 10 maybe), to avoid the problem.
Blue Sky "fixed" that by only having one instance.
I suppose we could "fix" it in a similar way by inviting people to a specific instance instead of pointing them at join-lemmy.org.(Although that site has improved massively since the last time I saw it.)
Don't even mention instances or federation, just say "hey you should join me on ".
Once they are using it, that's the first hurdle, and they'll notice pretty quickly that there are other servers that all (mostly) talk to each other.
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2 in my local area. It's how I found out about it. We have been slowly growing the community.
Heck yeah!
Oh God I would never admit this to anyone IRL
Haha, I stop short of giving them my username
Buddy, I don't even know myself.
0, and happy to keep it that way.
Zero. I think one lives near me based on some posts they made (as in near the same major city, could still be hours away). Another mentioned going to the same convention I go to every year but it's a massive convention that brings in people from all over the world. The two friends I have that used RIF is fun for Reddit back in the day switched to the official app instead of trying alternatives.
Zero. I know a couple of you nerds live in Philly and that terrifies me. I also know the reverse is true. This is the game we have agreed too.
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one of my friends uses lemmy
No. No one else, which is great.
No. No one else, which is too bad.
None, and that's probably a good thing. And also really not unexpected given how small the platform is.
None. I normally don't give out my social media to people IRL, so there's no way they'd know I'm on Lemmy not I know they're on here either.
I convinced one person to make an account but they don't use it. I do know another person IRL who uses Mastodon, so i send them Lemmy stuff there
None, as far as I know.
Not a single one.
I have had people who I know from other platforms come across me on Lemmy. Just got a DM the other day saying "Found you", we had a good laugh about it since we didn't know we both used Lemmy. However IRL I don't think anyone I know is nerd enough to be on Lemmy.
There seems to be 3 forum platforms.
- Lemmy
- Gab
I hear about reddit on the radio and people talk about reddit. No one talks about the other two.
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Zero. However I would be interested in seeing anyone in real life. I feel like it would go do in Lemmy history.
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None here, had never thought about that. Now I feel lonely.
You have all of us and the Lemmy shenanigans. It's a pretty lively bunch.
None
Seen with my own eyeballs?
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But I'm pretty sure they post to Mastadon and it is visible here on Lemmy. Or maybe they have accounts on Lemmy.
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My partner was on it for like a minute but I don't think they use it anymore. Certainly not as much as I do.
I have at least 3 friends IRL that are on Lemmy. One of them I got to join, and two are friends I met doing mutual aid and other organizing projects. Later found out they're on here.
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I tell many people about it, probably none have signed up but it's not my business to know their username if they have. Might be fun to meet some of you.
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None. Even trying to suggest Mastodon, still no luck which I just stopped as I'm just exhausted of hearing the answer "no".
I have one friend that suggested him to use it, he tried it, he doesn't use it a lot, does it count?
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