Ask Lemmy

I don't want to be specific but I'm on the younger side of college age

I'd say we probably skew more towards 30s-40s a lot of us are transplants from other sites and have been around the block a few times - there are certainly younger folks too, but they had to somehow trip over fediverse tech through a fluke.

Based on this poll with 599 participants from the german !ich_iel@feddit.org community, most of us are somewhere between 20 and 40 years old.

This is only a small fraction of lemmy users, maybe it just represents the age range of german meme enjoyers on lemmy, but I don't know of any other poll with a sample size this big.

There have been several polls. We're older and more female than you think.

I would estimate

15% <25

60% 25-40

25% 40+

Y'all be showing your age sometimes 😅

I’m 30, so naturally I assume everyone else is too

There's at least one 57 year old.

My steam account is nearly 20, lol

0-100 I believe

85% neckbeards

I think mostly 30s and 40s based on the memes

I'm 19!

Seems like a young crowd to me based on the often naive and idealistic post replies. OTOH, I'm very often surprised that so many seem my age (50s).

I'm 18 if that's any help 🙃

I have no idea but I imagine most should be younger than I am (50+)

As a serious answer, I’d guess Lemmy skews younger. Too many idealists here to think the average user base has the wisdom that comes from experience.

Sorry, younglings. You’ll know when you get older: the long view clearly demonstrates optimism is a lie. History is a corkscrew. Progress is made, but only through endless repetitions of past mistakes.

younger than on Mastodon (where it’s overwhelmingly 40+)

Younger than 30yo the technical knowledge declines rapidly, so it's very unlikely for them to be here.

Around 9 years old. Could be some 11 year olds in there.