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?
90s, non-binary and south america.
420/Yes please/Your mother’s bedroom
(I understand the curiosity, but come on now)
36 / M / Germany
Pretty much spot on.
I’ll start: 39/M/US, so yeah, I fit the demographic.
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
16 / M / Ireland
I always feel like a small child in the lemmy user base haha
13 here, I feel like a baby in the Lemmy userbase
You both are
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.
18 / M / Slovakia
Put in the legwork to find me Mr alphabet soup man. I know you can do it, you’re just being lazy.
Thank you but I was born in the 70s. Did you want to see a picture of the burnt orange shag rug in my childhood bedroom?
13 / M / Slovenia
I somewhat fit this demographic, but my age is not at all comparable to the average Lemmy user.
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
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.
You’ll be going places.
Keep it up, don’t lose that curiosity!
Lol, you inspire me dude
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.
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.
Nope. I am reluctant in sharing the info. But i am not from 80s and i am neither from north america nor from eu .
I am a male though.
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.
It’s better to provide aggregated data (South East Asia instead of saying Thailand)
I feel like an anonymous survey would be much more privacy respecting than everyone commenting with their demographics…
“Nice try… FBI”
We have the Venn overlap of people who want privacy and people who dislike enshittification. Then some join Lemmy.
⇒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.
⇒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
