But even for reddit I only know a person in real life that uses it. I tried to convert him, he said "there are too many Linux apologists" 🤷🏻♂️
My spouse. But that's it.
That would imply that they know it even exists
I'm not sure I know anyone in real life
Let me stop you before you suggest a narwhal bacons at midnight equivalent for lemmy
There's no way to know
Nah. My brother, wife, my two best friends and one co-worker are the only ones who even know it exists, and that's because they know I use it as an alternative to reddit since the API fiasco. It's honestly pretty obscure, but I like it that way. I'd love to see larger niche communities, especially since r/stalker was one of the only places I could actively talk about my favorite game series, but Lemmy has been a far better experience overall.
I didn't know a single redditor either, some ppl who had seen my name (my dumbass doxed my full unique name as my username when I was a kid and I didnt change it forever) irl had mentioned it to me, but they didn't use it past google, they weren't posting, commenting, or signing up
People don't like redditors in general, its an insult, I dont think lemmy has the same vibe but its also not popular
No
Same. Everyone that i know of that once used Reddit is still over there.
If, for whatever reason, Reddit allows third party apps to be usable again over there like before the fallout then i might go back. But until then i am here.
My immediate meat-space circles are aware of it and have stopped asking me WTH is wrong with my meme links in the group chats.
I do not believe anyone else has an account.
Of course I know him, it's me!.jpg
"This is the man you are looking for."
I've only actively converted one person so far, but there is one other person whom I suspect of using lemmy but have not confirmed.
Probably a couple people but it has never actually come up in conversation. I'll ask next time I see them.
It's easy to find other Lemmy users IRL. Show up to any Linux meet up, and roughly 5-10% seem to use Lemmy.
how do you find Linux meetups?
I happen to live close to a couple of universities and have been friends with some of the CS faculty for a number of years. I generally just tag along with them.
I don't know anyone besides myself that even uses social media IRL.
...what? Nobody you know IRL uses Facebook, Linkedin, Insragram, Bluesky, Twitter, or That Google Thing?
How is that possible? I don't think I could find anyone here in Finland who could say what you're saying. Need more data about this case of yours!
I do not know and will never try to find out.
Bold of you to assume that I know anybody in real life.
No, I'd be extremely suspicious of such person.
Yes I have been a Lemmy advocate since I joined, but I have only ever gotten one person to use Lemmy. I told one of my daughters friends mom about Lemmy. She does not allow her daughter to use social media. Except for Lemmy.
So that is it. My one conversion. I have kind of given up on trying to convert people. I still love Lemmy and the Fediverse, but the year of Lemmy mainstream has yet to come.
Yes. I shared a Star Trek meme with a coworker and they asked me where I got it. I told them about Lemmy and Tenforward and another coworker chimed in with "where every Vulcan knows your name"
Yes my sibling uses Lemmy. It was them that prompted me to join.
Wait, you guys are real people?
This is such a good response!! Love it
No. Even when I look in the mirror, I deny it.
Beat me to it. This was the first thing that came to my mind, too.
Me too. Uh oh.
It took 10 years to meet anyone that used Reddit. I assume it's gonna take another 10 to meet anyone on this platform.
about ten years ago, while playing in a bar locals team tournament. some people from the foosball scene but mostly regulars from the bar . this one guy who was pretty good first told me about Reddit. but like
oh I'm reddit famous, yay my posts get to the front page all the time i didn't like the dude so I've always been really private about my relationship with any platform
I'll brag about making top 20 counterstrike players one week in the 1990s through wql and gamespy
I thought we were all bots.
Let's find out:
Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for cupcakes.
Put your oven to heat up to maybe 175 degrees? Take some flour and sugar and salt and, I guess, baking powder? Mix in correct proportions, add a suitable amount of a liquid safe fie eating. Mix well. Pour in forms.
Put the forms on a baking tray and into the oven. If you're very lucky and you remembered to add the unlisted ingredients in correct amounts, you now have something cupcake-like. Put some toppings on.
Yoghurt.
Hmm. I thought I was a paid schill.
Still trying to figure out the getting paid part.
you must have exhausted most of your energy stores, fellow human.
I’m the only real person in here.
Bep bop
I AM HERE TO REACH YOU ABOUT YOUR CARS EXTENDED WARRANTY
Other way around, I know people in rl through lemmy.
Guy from work posted a Lemmy meme link.
not that I'm aware. my wife made an account somewhere but doesn't use it
God, I hope not.
I do. But despite my best efforts at explaining and advertising this platform, none of my friends seem to care 🥲.
That's crazy. How are they keeping up with news about Trump and Musk then?
Really, this amounts to a question of who has recommended lemmy to others. Which is an interesting question.
I don't like recommending to friends because then they'll ask me what my account is and I prefer to stay anonymous. I feel like I probably have friends that are on Lemmy and haven't shared with me for the same reason tbh.
The worst thing I ever did was get to the front page of Reddit back in 2010 and then all my friends knew my handle forever.
I considered it when I got my friends to join Reddit ~20 years ago. I made a second account that just posted links to cat pics, no comments. Cute animals are a safe bet.
Bonus, they started sending me cute pictures of their ferrets and dogs that I wish I had backed up beyond a long forgotten flickr
I've recommended it to others, but none are interested, which is extra surprising considering how many of them work in tech or tech adjacent.
Lemmy is more its memes than its technocommunist roots. It’s not a very sticky experience if you don’t like the memes. (I like the memes)
I mentioned it, but didn’t try to recommend it to my forty something sisters who mostly use Facebook, because I figured it was a lost cause (and we’re small enough that I’d be very identifiable from my comments), but try were both very interested in it. Unfortunately, I lost them trying to explain it.
Not enough grimdank to keep them
I am in your walls.
Them sugar walls 😏
Then you gotta contribute to the rent and do chores, buddy.
Bruno?
We don't talk about Bruno no no
I don't even know anyone who uses BlueSky and that's considerably more trendy lately. Granted, most of my contacts are 20 something college girls so it's pretty much TikTok as far as the eye can see.
Are you real? Is... is anything real??
Is....everything...cake?
The cake is a lie?
Yes, myself. That's it though
My own spouse, but...as the statisticians would say, that is not really two independent samples.
Well of course I know him. He's me.
If they do they probably don't talk about it, tbh.
This is verifiably false. Anyone on here just cannot shut up about being on here (sample size = 1).
No. Thank God.
Nobody is real here, man
What's the lemmy version of "the narwhal bacons at midnight"?
“The beans never poop”
"The beans never poop their jeans"
Still better than the reddit one
"BEANIS" heh heh heh
Nope
I met up with some guys (and gals) from [email protected] at the Chaos Communication Congress in December. They also took a group photo together that I unfortunately missed.
Some people in my local Hackerspace also use Lemmy. One of them was Admin on feddit.de before it shut down.
If you have a Hackerspace where you live, there is a good chance that some people there use Lemmy too.
edit: Hacker as in Hacker Culture or in the sense of the German Wikipedia Entry for Hacker and not in the sense of the Security Hacker
Wait, someone knew the admin the whole time? I thought they went missing, but I also didn’t pay super close attention. I hope all is well with them.
Why yes I do know him, he's me.
No. I happened across somebody on Lemmy from the same sub 100k city as me though.
I haven’t talked about it with my social circles but I would be surprised if nobody I know is on here.
Isn't this all a simulation anyway???
Seriously though, I do know several people IRL that are Lemmy users.
It is all a simulation. I died in 1999. Sorry zoomers.
I know for certain I am the only Lemmy user within a 300km radius
I actually know one person IRL that uses Lemmy. We both found it independently of one another.
What is real?
Everyone I know in real life only uses Facebook...
Several lemmings surprisingly.
My brother.
My wife. Hey wait a second, that lamp looks odd....
Not really, but I found out about lemmy and the Fediverse one week ago. I already told about it to 2 people, maybe if you ask me again in a couple of weeks the answer may be different
Why would we? Even Reddit had a secret salute when it was starting, because it was growing slowly. Something social exploding is not the norm, but the result of aggressive marketing, which Lemmy instances can’t afford, and have no need to pay for.
idk a redditor, let alone a lemming
As long as it's small there is no interest in meddling and control by the regime.
Afte witnessing the evolution of so-called 'moderation' and the inherent bias it entails I can say I prefer free speech with all the insults and whatever comes with it over the shithole that Reddit has become.
Deleted commments, banned or ghostbanned for the slightest and bots bots bots.I don't know any other people that use it, but other people know I use it 😄
Yep couple people.
I wouldn't be surprised to find a friend, a cousin, and a friend's husband- just because they're all 3 smart, techish, liberal, and news aware.
I look in the mirror every morning and yell at that fucking idiot who uses Lemmy. It's my favorite time of the day. :)
no
yes, but we never acknowledge each other outside the application
Yes, the person in the mirror does.
🙃
No. I recommended Lemmy to my friends, and they were all driven away by bad moderation, tankies, or transphobia within a day. They think I'm mad for using this site and surrounding myself with the people here.
I recommend it two the two friends I know that use reddit. The one didn't even join because there's no active sport communities. And the other left after about 3 months a little less.
