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To me, it seems like most of Lemmy consists of users who are older millennials (born at some point in the 80s), male, and about 50/50 split between living in North America or the EU.

Do you fit this demographic?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like an anonymous survey would be much more privacy respecting than everyone commenting with their demographics…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

"Nice try... FBI"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

We have the Venn overlap of people who want privacy and people who dislike enshittification. Then some join Lemmy.

β‡’Nonresponse bias by people who scroll by and don't care to read other people's info or post their own. Huge sieve, these comments aren't even seen.

Then we have curious people who are probably curious about tech or tinkering or protecting themselves or more organic forums like Lemmy.

β‡’Nonresponse bias by people who check this out by curiosity (e.g. comment/upvote ratio, are people really giving out their info or faking it with jokes?) but then they definitely choose to not comment. They et al. might upvote the above comment or not, and nope out.

We can't even get good Linux user demographics. A large survey sometime back said "Wayland was leading over Xorg, according to users who replied" -- obviously false, take a look at Indian corporate use of Ubuntu Desktop LTS, or the legacyness of X11.

Blah blah, 2.5/mitosis/deep sea geysers

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Be careful giving away personal information on Lemmy. It’s wildly difficult to ensure stuff is deleted or removed in the Fediverse across multiple servers.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

18/F/Cali

How has nobody memed this yet? You guys seem waaay too comfortable sharing personal information for the fact that this is the website of linux nerds, don't you care about online privacy?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

420/Yes please/Your mother's bedroom

(I understand the curiosity, but come on now)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

16 / M / Ireland

I always feel like a small child in the lemmy user base haha

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

13 here, I feel like a baby in the Lemmy userbase

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

They're a lot younger than me too... but I was on the Internet, including in some mostly-adult communities, at 16 too (not so much at 13). Many of my formative experiences took place there and so I see absolutely nothing wrong with what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

38 / M / Canada/Spain

So I am a male, born in the eighties, split about 75/25 NA/EU.

Do I fit the demographic? You misunderstand...

I AM the demographic.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I'm a 19-year-old female corvid that migrated to North Africa for better mate selection. I still managed to get a social security number in the US by showing up to the government offices piled on top of other crows in a trench coat and it is "315 34 5262". My bank account is filled with thousands of dollars in change stolen from people and can be accessed with the username "blackwings" and the password "neverdie111". Please don't use this information for any nefarious purposes. I need to feed my crow family.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

25 / F / Germany

I feel like there's a really good amount of Europeans around, but I might just imagine that because I browse new at the times when Europeans would be awake haha

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Sad / trans girl / looking for laugh-out-louds

Anonymous polling would be nice

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Omg this is getting silly. Asklemmy really is just a user profiling feed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lemmings of Lemmy: What's your blood type and eyeglass prescription?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Too old to understand why you’re asking about American Sign Language

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

13 / M / Slovenia

I somewhat fit this demographic, but my age is not at all comparable to the average Lemmy user.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yo you got your own instance running at 13? that's so rad

i'm a dev more than twice your age and i couldn't be bothered to read up on it lmao

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Thank you for noticing :)

I really love messing around with sysadmin stuff and Linux. I also have a blog page in case you'd like to have a read, but I'm currently in the process of rewriting it in Svelte instead of pure HTML and CSS (disgusting, I know), so I haven't had the chance to write more posts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Keep it up, don't lose that curiosity!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Lol, you inspire me dude

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You'll be going places.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

80's, female, born in the US and now (thankfully) an AU citizen.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

50s / M / North America and I lived "Ye Old Days" when A/S/L was created.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

36 / M / Germany

Pretty much spot on.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ha I thought for a second your age was in the 90's, but then I considered it more likely that you were born in the 1990's, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Early 30s /F / North America

I'm close to the right demographic, but for the missing appendage.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

but for the missing appendage.

If you cant grow your own, storebought is fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'll start: 39/M/US, so yeah, I fit the demographic.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah. I'm an 18-year-old male from Pakistan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yes/ F/ nope

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I identify as older millennials (born at some point in the 80s), male, and about 50/50 split between living in North America or the EU.

I'm not but that's how I identify.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

56/M/Australia

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am surprised that this post received so many genuine answers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

18 / M / Slovakia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Put in the legwork to find me Mr alphabet soup man. I know you can do it, you're just being lazy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

27 / M / Tanzania

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

40 / M / Canada

I have the same impression as you do but looking at the early answers, looks like Europe is a bit younger. I hope we are wrong, I'd rather have a very widespread demography to have more diverse opinions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

36 / M / Canada. I fit

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