Just my husband, but not sure he counts as he doesnβt have an account. I did meet one of my closest friends on Reddit though.
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But I'm pretty sure they post to Mastadon and it is visible here on Lemmy. Or maybe they have accounts on Lemmy.
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Just my wife, who downloaded the app for me and subscribed to instances because it's too complicated and effort
Yeah that's certainly a weakness of signing up for the fediverse (Lemmy, mastodon, etc).
There seems to be 3 forum platforms.
- Lemmy
- Gab
I hear about reddit on the radio and people talk about reddit. No one talks about the other two.
Interesting. This is the first I heard of Gab
Gab's exclusively for nazis.
It's like a far right Lemmy? Huh. Kinda like bizarro Lemmy.
I think the appeal is Trump is on Gab. (Don't quote me. I'm not sure.)
None. Although I've never asked
Just one, the only relatively tech-savvy person I know irl
Added to the tally. I'm not sure if the tally is larger or smaller than I expected.
Buddy, I don't even know myself.
I have at least 3 friends IRL that are on Lemmy. One of them I got to join, and two are friends I met doing mutual aid and other organizing projects. Later found out they're on here.
You are the only person so far that knows someone else's on Lemmy and you aren't reason they joined or vis-versa
Huzzah! I know a bunch of geeks and radicals, so maybe that's why.
Woah very cool. Excuse my ignorance but is "mutual aid" a term for helping out your neighbor? Which is something people have always done but it often sounds like when people use the term "mutual aid" it is a bit more organized. Does that ring true for you?
Yeah, that's pretty much it. "Mutual aid" is meant to be distinct from "charity" which has a different kind of implication. Mutual aid is more about "we help each other". Charity can absolutely be organized, but tends to be more "structured" than mutual aid efforts.
Makes sense. Thanks
0 and I hope I never meet any of you.
Zero. However I would be interested in seeing anyone in real life. I feel like it would go do in Lemmy history.
I've never met anyone in person who's even heard of Lemmy. Well, at least whenever it's brought up π
Trick question. I'm the only real user on the internet. Nice try.
Dead internet fact
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Just my partner and I.
Big fat goose egg 0. A lot of people I talk to don't even know what Reddit is, really.
Any time Iβve brought it up everybody glazes over the first time I say the words βinstanceβ or βfederated.β Iβve tried the email analogy, but they lose interest immediately.
Call them "communities", not "instances", that might work better
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"?
"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.
This made me think about my struggles with trying to learn moves in fighting games.
The tutorial canβt tell me the move with actual button combinations. No. Instead I have to read it as punch + kick + grab first. And because Iβm a frigginβ noob, I have to try to interpret what buttons those actions are.
How is this relevant? It really isnβt, the more I think about it. Bad comparison. Ah well. At least you know how sad I am at fighting games now.
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None, as far as I know.
2 in my local area. It's how I found out about it. We have been slowly growing the community.
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Two. The friend who sent me here and a friend I sent here.
So far I don't think I've met anyone
PS. According to the subscribers of the Greek community, there are probably less than 70 Greeks online on lemmy (and probably some of them live abroad), so it's probably rather rare to find someone who uses it.
I know one.
I know one who I stumble upon once in a while in the comments, we say hi to each other
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.
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My partner was on it for like a minute but I don't think they use it anymore. Certainly not as much as I do.
0, and happy to keep it that way.
Zero. I think one lives near me based on some posts they made (as in near the same major city, could still be hours away). Another mentioned going to the same convention I go to every year but it's a massive convention that brings in people from all over the world. The two friends I have that used RIF is fun for Reddit back in the day switched to the official app instead of trying alternatives.
Ha I'll add 0.5 to the count
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