I don’t know any Lemmy users IRL. I have nudged my friends towards it. My partner has asked me to post things a few times. Just curious.
Edit: running total including the commenter: 9 people
no one uses lemmy in my country.
None. Even trying to suggest Mastodon, still no luck which I just stopped as I’m just exhausted of hearing the answer “no”.
I know some people using that big social network Lemmy-like. But none of them came to here.
None, and that’s probably a good thing. And also really not unexpected given how small the platform is.
0 and I hope I never meet any of you.
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.
I am morbidly curious what the average Lemming is like.
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.
It’s terrifying that some folks don’t live in Philly? I have spent a good bit of time in Philly myself. You have been warned.
No, it’s because I live in Philly!
Oh shoot, I’m not so far from you. I live more south of Allentown, but work closer to Philadelphia.
I have one friend that suggested him to use it, he tried it, he doesn’t use it a lot, does it count?
Sure, I’ll add you to the tally
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Any time I’ve brought it up everybody glazes over the first time I say the words “instance” or “federated.” I’ve tried the email analogy, but they lose interest immediately.
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 <favorite instance URL>”.
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.
I’ve never met anyone in person who’s even heard of Lemmy. Well, at least whenever it’s brought up 😅
I’m your neighbor.
Oh hi mark
Oh God I would never admit this to anyone IRL
Haha, I stop short of giving them my username
Trick question. I’m the only real user on the internet. Nice try.
That’s what the bot would say.
Dead internet fact
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.
