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

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    5 days ago

    I’ve never met anyone in person who’s even heard of Lemmy. Well, at least whenever it’s brought up 😅

  • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 days ago

    Just my husband, but not sure he counts as he doesn’t have an account. I did meet one of my closest friends on Reddit though.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 days ago

    Seen with my own eyeballs?

    2

    But I’m pretty sure they post to Mastadon and it is visible here on Lemmy. Or maybe they have accounts on Lemmy.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    5 days ago

    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.

      • Hyphlosion@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        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.

      • comfy@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 days ago

        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”?

        • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 days ago

          “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.

    • vatlark@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      5 days ago

      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.

      • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        5 days ago

        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.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      Try ‘non corporate reddit that isn’t full of bots, and you can block assholes.’

  • MakingWork@lemmy.ca
    5·
    4 days ago

    There seems to be 3 forum platforms.

    1. Lemmy
    2. Reddit
    3. Gab

    I hear about reddit on the radio and people talk about reddit. No one talks about the other two.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    5 days ago

    2 in my local area. It’s how I found out about it. We have been slowly growing the community.