Yeah that’s the thing: 100% of people that I’ve told that I use “Lemmy” seem to have Googled it, see the top instance result of that being Lemmy.ml, which very notably has its default feed (i.e. that someone would see without an account) set to Local rather than All and not only noped out, HARD, but they chided me for even having mentioned it to them.
Me who blocks that instance had no idea… plus I use DuckDuckGo anyway rather than Google, but that’s not what THEY (non-tech-savvy people) want to do, and that’s fair that they should be free to do as they choose, the same as me.:-)
So beware of that association: you might literally lose the possibility of a relationship with someone (colleague at work, personal, whatever) over telling them that you use “Lemmy”, which so many people seem quite likely to translate into “the tankie version of Reddit”. Maybe you are okay with that, I just wanted to warn you so that you knew in advance…:-)
Yeah that’s the thing: 100% of people that I’ve told that I use “Lemmy” seem to have Googled it, see the top instance result of that being Lemmy.ml, which very notably has its default feed (i.e. that someone would see without an account) set to Local rather than All and not only noped out, HARD, but they chided me for even having mentioned it to them.
Me who blocks that instance had no idea… plus I use DuckDuckGo anyway rather than Google, but that’s not what THEY (non-tech-savvy people) want to do, and that’s fair that they should be free to do as they choose, the same as me.:-)
So beware of that association: you might literally lose the possibility of a relationship with someone (colleague at work, personal, whatever) over telling them that you use “Lemmy”, which so many people seem quite likely to translate into “the tankie version of Reddit”. Maybe you are okay with that, I just wanted to warn you so that you knew in advance…:-)