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How do the demographics of Lemmy differ from those of Reddit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by whileloop@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've noticed that technology discussion is more commonplace on Lemmy than I remember from Reddit.

In what other ways might our demographics be different than Reddit and from other sites?

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[–] colonial@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It doesn't help that the devs unironically refer to themselves as tankies.

I mean, it's not a huge deal because, y'know, it's a federated service - but you could probably partially attribute the early population's leanings to that.