Do you know anyone in real life that uses Lemmy?

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.

No

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.

Of course I know him, it's me!.jpg

It's easy to find other Lemmy users IRL. Show up to any Linux meet up, and roughly 5-10% seem to use Lemmy.

I do not know and will never try to find out.

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.

I don't know anyone besides myself that even uses social media IRL.

Bold of you to assume that I know anybody in real life.

No, I'd be extremely suspicious of such person.

not that I'm aware. my wife made an account somewhere but doesn't use it

It took 10 years to meet anyone that used Reddit. I assume it's gonna take another 10 to meet anyone on this platform.

Guy from work posted a Lemmy meme link.

Not enough grimdank to keep them

Other way around, I know people in rl through lemmy.

I thought we were all bots.

no and i don't think anyone here is real. every account is a russian psyop bot trying to make leftists appear insane and stupid

God, I hope not.

I do. But despite my best efforts at explaining and advertising this platform, none of my friends seem to care 🥲.

Yes, myself. That's it though

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 am in your walls.

Really, this amounts to a question of who has recommended lemmy to others. Which is an interesting question.

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??

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.

Nope

No. Thank God.

If they do they probably don't talk about it, tbh.

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.

Nobody is real here, man

What's the lemmy version of "the narwhal bacons at midnight"?

I met up with some guys (and gals) from !ich_iel@feddit.org 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

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.

I actually know one person IRL that uses Lemmy. We both found it independently of one another.

My wife. Hey wait a second, that lamp looks odd....

What is real?

Several lemmings surprisingly.

My brother.

Me, myself, and I

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.

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