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?

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

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)

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

Not yet, but it seems to be growing.

I don’t even know anyone that uses Reddit 🫠

That would require me to actually know someone.

Know him, I am him

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

That would imply that they know it even exists

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.