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.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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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.
I don't really miss reddit itself, just the breadth of content that was there
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.
how do you find Linux meetups?
Meetup.com
interesting, I will give it a look
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 do not know and will never try to find out.
Yes my sibling uses Lemmy. It was them that prompted me to join.
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"
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
Wait, you guys are real people?
This is such a good response!! Love it
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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
Guy from work posted a Lemmy meme link.
Other way around, I know people in rl through lemmy.
Not enough grimdank to keep them
I thought we were all bots.
Let's find out:
Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for cupcakes.
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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
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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?
Yes, myself. That's it though
I am in your walls.
Them sugar walls 😏
Then you gotta contribute to the rent and do chores, buddy.
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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
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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.
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