Yes my sibling uses Lemmy. It was them that prompted me to join.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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not that I'm aware. my wife made an account somewhere but doesn't use it
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 do not know and will never try to find out.
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.
Bold of you to assume that I know anybody in real life.
No, I'd be extremely suspicious of such person.
I don't know anyone besides myself that even uses social media IRL.
Not enough grimdank to keep them
Guy from work posted a Lemmy meme link.
Yes, myself. That's it though
Other way around, I know people in rl through lemmy.
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
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?
Beat me to it. This was the first thing that came to my mind, too.
No. Even when I look in the mirror, I deny it.
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
You were programmed to say that because I’m the only one that’s real.
Nice try bot, I’M the only real one here
I’m not real, but in a figment of your imagination type of way.
I am real, but a bot is situationally reposting my stuff from other platforms to make me appear active here.
I am in your walls.
Then you gotta contribute to the rent and do chores, buddy.
Bruno?
We don't talk about Bruno no no
I thought we were all bots.
Let's find out:
Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for cupcakes.
Hmm. I thought I was a paid schill.
Still trying to figure out the getting paid part.
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I’m the only real person in here.
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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.
Nope
Really, this amounts to a question of who has recommended lemmy to others. Which is an interesting question.
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.
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.
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