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: 32.5 people
None. Although I’ve never asked
I know myself.
Or do I?
X-Files theme
0 and I hope I never meet any of you.
Lemmy? I can’t even get them off the goddamned Facebook.
Ha, I have a few of those myself
I’ve never met anyone in person who’s even heard of Lemmy. Well, at least whenever it’s brought up 😅
Trick question. I’m the only real user on the internet. Nice try.
Dead internet fact
That’s what the bot would say.
Everyone else is an agent in this honeypot
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.
Call them “communities”, not “instances”, that might work better
Perhaps there’s a better term, because “communities” already means something else here. Last thing we need is another Discord-calling-groups-‘servers’ mess.
“Homes” could be alright? or even “towns”?
“Communities” would work well because most people understand that it describes a group of people with similar interests which is basically what Lemmy instances are (whereas “instance” sounds borderline meaningless to most people as if you’re trying to push them onto a tech project they don’t understand). The Lemmy “c/” could be called “subcommunities” or “sublemmies” or something like that which would help people who are familiar with Reddit understand what they are as well.
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.
Magic box is magic. Anything else hurts most people’s brains.
In a way, it’s impressive we got this far technologically before we started losing the plot, considering we evolved for the pointy-sticks-and-fire level.
Try ‘non corporate reddit that isn’t full of bots, and you can block assholes.’
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.
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.
No. No one else, which is great.
one of my friends uses lemmy
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.
Oh shoot, I’m not so far from you. I live more south of Allentown, but work closer to Philadelphia.
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!
No. No one else, which is too bad.
