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

My immediate meat-space circles are aware of it and have stopped asking me WTH is wrong with my meme links in the group chats.

I do not believe anyone else has an account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Same. Everyone that i know of that once used Reddit is still over there.

If, for whatever reason, Reddit allows third party apps to be usable again over there like before the fallout then i might go back. But until then i am here.

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

I don't really miss reddit itself, just the breadth of content that was there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

I agree. The Blender community here seems very small in comparison :'(

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

I've only actively converted one person so far, but there is one other person whom I suspect of using lemmy but have not confirmed.

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

Probably a couple people but it has never actually come up in conversation. I'll ask next time I see them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago

Of course I know him, it's me!.jpg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

not that I'm aware. my wife made an account somewhere but doesn't use it

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

Yes my sibling uses Lemmy. It was them that prompted me to join.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours 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] 6 points 11 hours 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] 12 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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] 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

how do you find Linux meetups?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

interesting, I will give it a look

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Not enough grimdank to keep them

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Yes, myself. That's it though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

Guy from work posted a Lemmy meme link.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No. I recommended Lemmy to my friends, and they were all driven away by bad moderation, tankies, or transphobia within a day. They think I'm mad for using this site and surrounding myself with the people here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I recommend it two the two friends I know that use reddit. The one didn't even join because there's no active sport communities. And the other left after about 3 months a little less.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Yea I recommended it to a friend and the reason they didn't stay was the lack of niche communities. And I get that. You have to have very specific requirements to thrive here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 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] 3 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago

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

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