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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It took 10 years to meet anyone that used Reddit. I assume it's gonna take another 10 to meet anyone on this platform.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You were programmed to say that because I’m the only one that’s real.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nice try bot, I’M the only real one here

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Really, this amounts to a question of who has recommended lemmy to others. Which is an interesting question.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do. But despite my best efforts at explaining and advertising this platform, none of my friends seem to care 🥲.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's crazy. How are they keeping up with news about Trump and Musk then?

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[–] remotelove 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Are you real? Is... is anything real??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

God, I hope not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Guy from work posted a Lemmy meme link.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Them sugar walls 😏

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Not enough grimdank to keep them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yes, myself. That's it though

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If they do they probably don't talk about it, tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

No. Thank God.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I met up with some guys (and gals) from [email protected] 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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's the lemmy version of "the narwhal bacons at midnight"?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

“The beans never poop”

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