Although Lemmy’s userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.

  • Chozo
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    Lemmy’s still small enough that if you’re even remotely active, you start to recognize just about everybody. I like that, and I kinda miss that about the smaller communities/forums of the old internet.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      jots down your username

      Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

      Definately gonna follow this guy around Lemmy and make completely innocent remarks, that are in no way insulting or aggressive.

      But with Lemmy being so small, and me having said that, he’s now going to wonder if I actually AM following him around Lemmy. Or is it really the coincidence of Lemmy being so small.

      However I post so often everywhere that it’s bound to happen. And he’s going to be like “OH MY GOD DUDE!!! IT’S BEEN THREE MONTHS!!! STOOOOOP!!!”

      And 5 minutes after posting this I will immediately forget he exists. Thus making him look like a crazy person from my perspective.

      See? This is how you troll yourself. Start by having insane thoughts, follow up by acting on them, then forget the whole thing, and be confused by the consequences of your own actions!

      And thus, I learn absplutely nothing!

      • @brygphilomena
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        I used to use the personal tag/comment in RES to keep track of peoples real names when they let slip in a post.

        It was always fun to run across them in another sub months later and use their name as if I knew them.

        • @Klear
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          Boost has a tag function. Main reason I’m using it, though I mostly just use it to tag tankies.

      • @[email protected]
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        Start by having insane thoughts, follow up by acting on them, then forget the whole thing, and be confused by the consequences of your own actions!

        That is a really spot on description on how I live my life.

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      I’ve ran into my sister a few times. Hilariously one time she didn’t notice my username and actually quoted my own comment back to me IRL because she thought it was funny.

      Quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy certainly feels like moving from a metropolis to a village.

    • @samus12345
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      43 months ago

      Ooh, I wonder what power-up you’re holding?

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    3 months ago

    Shocked nobody seems to have brought up ThePicardManuever yet

  • @BonesOfTheMoon
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    483 months ago

    I think most of Lemmy knows me by now, and FlyingSquid.

    • @then_three_more
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      253 months ago

      And Stamets. Though, thinking about it I’ve not seen them about much recently.

      • HobbitFoot
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        123 months ago

        He’s Riker now.

        He really didn’t like the end to Discovery.

        • @then_three_more
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          53 months ago

          Haha I’d missed that.

          On a side note I thought it ended ok. Not great not terrible I’d probably give it 3.6.

          The calypso ending was massively tacked on. Instead of putting the tech in the black hole they should have had to have Discovery itself have to hide with it. Then emotional goodbyes under pressure rather than dragged out.

      • @BonesOfTheMoon
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        113 months ago

        JameGumb and Pug Jesus too.

        I think the fediverse is the future and I want it to do well and be robust, and also I like to talk a lot so that translates to posting here.

      • swab148
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        Stamets had a hater, he probably just made a new profile lol

    • @olutukko
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      you and @FlyingSquid yeah. I did calculate one day how much flying squod posts and comments and damn he’s active

      edit: I guess you can link people like that. TIL

      • @BonesOfTheMoon
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        53 months ago

        I’m so glad! I’m always surprised who reads it.

    • HEXN3T
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      One of you, or the furry that I can’t remember the name of (so sorry), has to compete to become the new GallowBoob.

      Or me. I exist.

      EDIT: Kolanki

  • @TheBigBrother
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    473 months ago

    I don’t but I will add you to my watching list.

  • @CatZoomies
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    473 months ago

    While some have already been mentioned, I’d also like to call out that we do have the esteemed Academy Award winning actress, Margot Robbie in Lemmy! She posts when she can, and I’m really hoping one day she’ll do an Ask Me Anything with us.

  • Stern
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    flying squid, return2ozma, jeffw, and that raging moron Stern is about it for me.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    I think Kolanaki, Zacharia, Margot Robbie (since she’s famous already), are the ones I can remember. Maybe making a journal page for keeping track would help.

  • @extant
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    FlyingSquid is the only one I recognize and I feel like he’s lemmys GallowBoob from reddit.

    • @Deestan
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      👋 samesies!

  • Pandantic [they/them]
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    343 months ago

    FlyingSquid, BonesoftheMoon, jeffw, and thePicardManeuver are the ones I recognize because I see them so often.

  • Lad
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    303 months ago

    The “Satan’s maggoty cum fart” person, hard to forget a name like that and the images it puts in your head

    • @ivanafterall
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      43 months ago

      It has invaded my head, too. I want a chance to use it in real life, but when!? Where!? Trivia night?

  • @[email protected]
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    Yes.

    I see and reply to u/FlyingSquid a lot.

    I also see u/The_Picard_Manoeuvre or some variation. I only remember those two as I saw them a lot when I came here and still do.

  • @IsThisAnAI
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    243 months ago

    Flying squid spends their entire life here as far as I can tell. And just about every major news sub is owned by Jeffw. This place has like 400 active users tops.

        • @Macallan
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          33 months ago

          Votes count as activity

          Hooray! I’m doing my part as someone who is mainly just a lurker.

      • @IsThisAnAI
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        I may be off for sure. But it’s pretty easy to size up the daily users and subs they run. It really depends on the metric you want to look at. The details are everything.

    • sunzu
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      Jeffw ain’t a bot?

      Too many news bots here IMHO

      • @NOT_RICK
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        123 months ago

        Jeffw keeps the Philly sports communities going, they’re a real person.

      • @IsThisAnAI
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        03 months ago

        It may be both? I’m not sure how the API works but I’ve thought I’ve seen him comment a few times in between the rage bait lol.