Do you know anyone in real life that uses Lemmy?

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

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

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.

It's easy to find other Lemmy users IRL. Show up to any Linux meet up, and roughly 5-10% seem to use Lemmy.
- how do you find Linux meetups?
  
  Meetup.com
  
  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.

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

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"

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

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

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

Not enough grimdank to keep them

Guy from work posted a Lemmy meme link.

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

It took 10 years to meet anyone that used Reddit. I assume it's gonna take another 10 to meet anyone on this platform.
- about ten years ago, while playing in a bar locals team tournament. some people from the foosball scene but mostly regulars from the bar . this one guy who was pretty good first told me about Reddit. but like
  oh I'm reddit famous, yay my posts get to the front page all the time i didn't like the dude so I've always been really private about my relationship with any platform
  I'll brag about making top 20 counterstrike players one week in the 1990s through wql and gamespy

Yes, myself. That's it though

God, I hope not.

- This is such a good response!! Love it
- Beat me to it. This was the first thing that came to my mind, too.
  
  Me too. Uh oh.
- No. Even when I look in the mirror, I deny it.

I do. But despite my best efforts at explaining and advertising this platform, none of my friends seem to care 🥲.
- That's crazy. How are they keeping up with news about Trump and Musk then?

no and i don't think anyone here is real. every account is a russian psyop bot trying to make leftists appear insane and stupid
- You were programmed to say that because I’m the only one that’s real.
  
  Nice try bot, I’M the only real one here

I thought we were all bots.
- Let's find out:
  Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for cupcakes.
- Hmm. I thought I was a paid schill.
  Still trying to figure out the getting paid part.
  
  It depends on what you’re peddling.
  MAGA gets paid in lies, and progressives in disappointment. Liberals and conservatives get a weekly stock tip call from Pelosi or Tuberville, respectively. Tankies get paid in vodka and cigarettes, and libertarians in crypto.
  
  I thought we were all paid in beans.
- I’m the only real person in here.
- Bep bop
- you must have exhausted most of your energy stores, fellow human.
- I AM HERE TO REACH YOU ABOUT YOUR CARS EXTENDED WARRANTY

I am in your walls.
- Then you gotta contribute to the rent and do chores, buddy.
- Bruno?
  
  We don't talk about Bruno no no

I don't even know anyone who uses BlueSky and that's considerably more trendy lately. Granted, most of my contacts are 20 something college girls so it's pretty much TikTok as far as the eye can see.

Really, this amounts to a question of who has recommended lemmy to others. Which is an interesting question.
- I've recommended it to others, but none are interested, which is extra surprising considering how many of them work in tech or tech adjacent.
  
  Lemmy is more its memes than its technocommunist roots. It’s not a very sticky experience if you don’t like the memes. (I like the memes)
  
  I mentioned it, but didn’t try to recommend it to my forty something sisters who mostly use Facebook, because I figured it was a lost cause (and we’re small enough that I’d be very identifiable from my comments), but try were both very interested in it. Unfortunately, I lost them trying to explain it.

Nope

Are you real? Is... is anything real??
- Is....everything...cake?
  
  The cake is a lie?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
  
  whether the world as we perceive it exists independently or not, we cannot escape this perception.
  I have several jars of mushrooms stashed away that absolutely can help escape that perception and several layers of perception after that. (Philosophical on that, Seth, Edinburgh Scotland!)

My own spouse, but...as the statisticians would say, that is not really two independent samples.

Well of course I know him. He's me.

No. I happened across somebody on Lemmy from the same sub 100k city as me though.
I haven’t talked about it with my social circles but I would be surprised if nobody I know is on here.

No. Thank God.

If they do they probably don't talk about it, tbh.
- This is verifiably false. Anyone on here just cannot shut up about being on here (sample size = 1).

I met up with some guys (and gals) from !ich_iel@feddit.org at the Chaos Communication Congress in December. They also took a group photo together that I unfortunately missed.
Some people in my local Hackerspace also use Lemmy. One of them was Admin on feddit.de before it shut down.
If you have a Hackerspace where you live, there is a good chance that some people there use Lemmy too.
edit: Hacker as in Hacker Culture or in the sense of the German Wikipedia Entry for Hacker and not in the sense of the Security Hacker
- Wait, someone knew the admin the whole time? I thought they went missing, but I also didn’t pay super close attention. I hope all is well with them.

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.

Nobody is real here, man

What's the lemmy version of "the narwhal bacons at midnight"?
- “The beans never poop”
  
  "The beans never poop their jeans"
  
  Still better than the reddit one
- "BEANIS" heh heh heh

Why yes I do know him, he's me.

I actually know one person IRL that uses Lemmy. We both found it independently of one another.

Isn't this all a simulation anyway???
Seriously though, I do know several people IRL that are Lemmy users.
- It is all a simulation. I died in 1999. Sorry zoomers.

I know for certain I am the only Lemmy user within a 300km radius

What is real?

Several lemmings surprisingly.

Why would we? Even Reddit had a secret salute when it was starting, because it was growing slowly. Something social exploding is not the norm, but the result of aggressive marketing, which Lemmy instances can’t afford, and have no need to pay for.

My brother.

My wife. Hey wait a second, that lamp looks odd....

Not really, but I found out about lemmy and the Fediverse one week ago. I already told about it to 2 people, maybe if you ask me again in a couple of weeks the answer may be different

Everyone I know in real life only uses Facebook...

Yep couple people.

idk a redditor, let alone a lemming

I don't know any other people that use it, but other people know I use it 😄

Me, myself, and I

I wouldn't be surprised to find a friend, a cousin, and a friend's husband- just because they're all 3 smart, techish, liberal, and news aware.

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.
- 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.
  
  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