Guy from work posted a Lemmy meme link.

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I wouldn't know because I've never mentioned it to anyone.

Isn't this all a simulation anyway???

Seriously though, I do know several people IRL that are Lemmy users.

No

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

Sadly no. Ive recommended the fediverse to a couple dudes, one of them is too much of a normie to care (i will lecture him again soon xD) and the other doesnt like the fediverse😐 chose bsky instead of mastodon.. (oh and a third guy just said fuck u and fuck all this stuff alltogether, he was fed up with me complaining ab big tech lmaooo at least he uses matrix to chat w me now)

No. Should I ever mention enshittification or reducing exposure to "big tech" then usually tinfoil hat jokes at my expense ensue

My husband recently rediscovered Lenny again and a friend joined. They both find it hard to stay since it's pretty quiet and don't have many active niches.

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.

There's no way to know

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"

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.

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

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

My brother.

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

Yes, myself. That's it though

Me, myself, and I

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

What is real?

I have a few friends that are fed up with Microsoft and Google and other big tech. We've been degoogling and trying Linux together (errr, they have - I'm the grizzled Linux junkie they all reached out to for advice).

Most of them have tried all the different fediverse products and they've found homes here and there.

Some of them have graduated into self-hosting even. I find this bit wonderful, if it's unfortunate how far the industry had to rot before they considered the move.

Several lemmings surprisingly.

lol no.

Me and my friend both switched from Reddit at the same time when the apps died.

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