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
None, as far as I know.
None
None. Even trying to suggest Mastodon, still no luck which I just stopped as I’m just exhausted of hearing the answer “no”.
0 and I hope I never meet any of you.
None, and that’s probably a good thing. And also really not unexpected given how small the platform is.
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.
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
This made me think about my struggles with trying to learn moves in fighting games.
The tutorial can’t tell me the move with actual button combinations. No. Instead I have to read it as punch + kick + grab first. And because I’m a friggin’ noob, I have to try to interpret what buttons those actions are.
How is this relevant? It really isn’t, the more I think about it. Bad comparison. Ah well. At least you know how sad I am at fighting games now.
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 know some people using that big social network Lemmy-like. But none of them came to here.
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!
None. Although I’ve never asked
Trick question. I’m the only real user on the internet. Nice try.
That’s what the bot would say.
Dead internet fact
Oh God I would never admit this to anyone IRL
Haha, I stop short of giving them my username
Lemmy? I can’t even get them off the goddamned Facebook.
Ha, I have a few of those myself
