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
0 and I hope I never meet any of you.
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.
Dead internet fact
That’s what the bot would say.
Everyone else is an agent in this honeypot
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.
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.
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
Seen with my own eyeballs?
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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.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just my husband, but not sure he counts as he doesn’t have an account. I did meet one of my closest friends on Reddit though.
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.)
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.
Zero. However I would be interested in seeing anyone in real life. I feel like it would go do in Lemmy history.
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.
Oh shoot, I’m not so far from you. I live more south of Allentown, but work closer to Philadelphia.
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.
No, it’s because I live in Philly!
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
