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

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    11 months ago

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

  • BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    11 months 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.

      • Hyphlosion@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • comfy@lemmy.ml
        1·
        11 months ago

        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”?

        • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
          1·
          11 months ago

          “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.

    • vatlark@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      11 months 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@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        11 months 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 ".

        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.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Try ‘non corporate reddit that isn’t full of bots, and you can block assholes.’

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • mesamunefire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    2 in my local area. It’s how I found out about it. We have been slowly growing the community.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 months 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.