I don’t even know anyone that uses Reddit 🫠

Not yet, but it seems to be growing.

That would require me to actually know someone.

I know one guy, but I know him from a IRC (now Matric) channel, but we are offline friends too and visited each other often.

But even for reddit I only know a person in real life that uses it. I tried to convert him, he said "there are too many Linux apologists" 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm not sure I know anyone in real life

My spouse. But that's it.

Let me stop you before you suggest a narwhal bacons at midnight equivalent for lemmy

Nah. My brother, wife, my two best friends and one co-worker are the only ones who even know it exists, and that's because they know I use it as an alternative to reddit since the API fiasco. It's honestly pretty obscure, but I like it that way. I'd love to see larger niche communities, especially since r/stalker was one of the only places I could actively talk about my favorite game series, but Lemmy has been a far better experience overall.

There's no way to know

I didn't know a single redditor either, some ppl who had seen my name (my dumbass doxed my full unique name as my username when I was a kid and I didnt change it forever) irl had mentioned it to me, but they didn't use it past google, they weren't posting, commenting, or signing up

No

My immediate meat-space circles are aware of it and have stopped asking me WTH is wrong with my meme links in the group chats.

I do not believe anyone else has an account.

Of course I know him, it's me!.jpg

I've only actively converted one person so far, but there is one other person whom I suspect of using lemmy but have not confirmed.

Probably a couple people but it has never actually come up in conversation. I'll ask next time I see them.

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

It's easy to find other Lemmy users IRL. Show up to any Linux meet up, and roughly 5-10% seem to use Lemmy.

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

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

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

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.

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"

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