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[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

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"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Not enough grimdank to keep them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Guy from work posted a Lemmy meme link.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Yes, myself. That's it though

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

God, I hope not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

That's crazy. How are they keeping up with news about Trump and Musk then?

[–] [email protected] 103 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Beat me to it. This was the first thing that came to my mind, too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago

No. Even when I look in the mirror, I deny it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You were programmed to say that because I’m the only one that’s real.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nice try bot, I’M the only real one here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not real, but in a figment of your imagination type of way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I am real, but a bot is situationally reposting my stuff from other platforms to make me appear active here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

Then you gotta contribute to the rent and do chores, buddy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

We don't talk about Bruno no no

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

I thought we were all bots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

Let's find out:

Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for cupcakes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I’m the only real person in here.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

Hmm. I thought I was a paid schill.

Still trying to figure out the getting paid part.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Lemmy is more its memes than its technocommunist roots. It’s not a very sticky experience if you don’t like the memes. (I like the memes)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (6 children)

Are you real? Is... is anything real??

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago

My own spouse, but...as the statisticians would say, that is not really two independent samples.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago

Well of course I know him. He's me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

No. Thank God.

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