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I thought we were all bots.
Hmm. I thought I was a paid schill.
Still trying to figure out the getting paid part.
It depends on what you’re peddling.
MAGA gets paid in lies, and progressives in disappointment. Liberals and conservatives get a weekly stock tip call from Pelosi or Tuberville, respectively. Tankies get paid in vodka and cigarettes, and libertarians in crypto.
Whoa, hey, I could be getting vodka and cigarettes? I'm switching teams.
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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
You were programmed to say that because I’m the only one that’s real.
Really, this amounts to a question of who has recommended lemmy to others. Which is an interesting question.
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.
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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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no. It's difficult to recommend it, "no it's good trust me, there's like none of the subs you like, and also you should go to the settings and block this list of words, also block these instances, and also do you know what a Tankie is?"
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It's easy to find other Lemmy users IRL. Show up to any Linux meet up, and roughly 5-10% seem to use Lemmy.
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Well of course I know him. He's me.
No, I'd be extremely suspicious of such person.
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" 🤷🏻♂️
See? Tankies aren't a problem at all. What're yall worried about?
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My own spouse, but...as the statisticians would say, that is not really two independent samples.
Not yet, but it seems to be growing.
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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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.
Other way around, I know people in rl through lemmy.
I do not know and will never try to find out.
Bold of you to assume that I know anybody in real life.
Nope, but I have had the thought that small-scale regional meet-ups could be fun.
On the one hand, smaller old-school forums do/did that sometimes and it can be really cool, if thinking in the spirit of the old internet.
ON THE OTHER HAND, I remember the infamous pictures from the Reddit meetup and good God, maybe not?
ON THE OTHER HAND, I remember the infamous pictures from the Reddit meetup and good God, maybe not?
you can't say that and then not link the pictures!
This is the one I was thinking of, but there are several interesting ones. I guess I'm being an asshole, maybe they're all awesome. They certainly seem to be smiling and having fun, so I'm just really the dick here. But here's the picture. Fuck, it is just...a lot. I don't know. NSFW.
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I do. But despite my best efforts at explaining and advertising this platform, none of my friends seem to care 🥲.
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God, I hope not.
I don't know anyone IRL that uses the fediverse. They just use everything else and then complain it's all owned by billionaires
Let me stop you before you suggest a narwhal bacons at midnight equivalent for lemmy
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Why yes I do know him, he's me.