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
I know myself.
Or do I?
Vsauce intensifies
I’ve never met anyone in person who’s even heard of Lemmy. Well, at least whenever it’s brought up 😅
Trick question. I’m the only real user on the internet. Nice try.
That’s what the bot would say.
Dead internet fact
Everyone else is an agent in this honeypot
Lemmy? I can’t even get them off the goddamned Facebook.
Ha, I have a few of those myself
None. Although I’ve never asked
Buddy, I don’t even know myself.
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.
Call them “communities”, not “instances”, that might work better
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.
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.
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.
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.
Try ‘non corporate reddit that isn’t full of bots, and you can block assholes.’
Oh God I would never admit this to anyone IRL
Haha, I stop short of giving them my username
0, and happy to keep it that way.
0 and I hope I never meet any of you.
None, as far as I know.
one of my friends uses lemmy
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.
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.)
