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

  • @[email protected]
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    31 hour ago

    None. Even trying to suggest Mastodon, still no luck which I just stopped as I’m just exhausted of hearing the answer “no”.

  • Carighan Maconar
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    72 hours ago

    None, and that’s probably a good thing. And also really not unexpected given how small the platform is.

  • @Psythik
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    204 hours ago

    0 and I hope I never meet any of you.

  • Rentlar
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    32 hours ago

    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.

    • @vatlarkOP
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      22 hours ago

      I am morbidly curious what the average Lemming is like.

  • Mister Neon
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    53 hours ago

    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.

    • anon6789
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      22 hours ago

      Oh shoot, I’m not so far from you. I live more south of Allentown, but work closer to Philadelphia.

    • @vatlarkOP
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      22 hours ago

      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.

      • Mister Neon
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        22 hours ago

        No, it’s because I live in Philly!

  • ByteMe
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    33 hours ago

    I have one friend that suggested him to use it, he tried it, he doesn’t use it a lot, does it count?

    • @vatlarkOP
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      12 hours ago

      Sure, I’ll add you to the tally

  • @[email protected]
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    155 hours 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.

    • @vatlarkOP
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      35 hours 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
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        63 hours 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    175 hours ago

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

  • @vatlarkOP
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    12 hours ago

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  • Aedis
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    12 hours ago

    I’m your neighbor.

  • socsa
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    85 hours ago

    Oh God I would never admit this to anyone IRL

    • @vatlarkOP
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      55 hours ago

      Haha, I stop short of giving them my username

  • konalt
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    146 hours ago

    Trick question. I’m the only real user on the internet. Nice try.

  • nadram
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    317 hours ago

    None. Although I’ve never asked

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    55 hours ago

    None. I normally don’t give out my social media to people IRL, so there’s no way they’d know I’m on Lemmy not I know they’re on here either.