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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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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Early 90s, male, North America

[–] indomara@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] apostrofail@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] indomara@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] ItzzMe@midwest.social 4 points 8 hours ago
[–] dai@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago
[–] laz@lemmy.umucat.day 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sicarius@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours 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?

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] lazzerot@startrek.website 17 points 23 hours 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?

420/Yes please/Your mother's bedroom

(I understand the curiosity, but come on now)

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

90s, non-binary and south america.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 points 19 hours ago

Millennial/dude/midwest

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

"Nice try... FBI"

[–] fool@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours 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

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day 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.

[–] laz@lemmy.umucat.day 2 points 12 hours ago

It's better to provide aggregated data (South East Asia instead of saying Thailand)

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Close, but not quite. One thing I notice a lot around here (Lemmy/fediverse) that suggests many users are elder millennials or older, is the frequent use of 2 spaces after a period. I don't really notice as much of that in other online communities.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

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

Anonymous polling would be nice

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

16 / M / Ireland

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

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 4 points 23 hours 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.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day 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.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 3 points 23 hours ago

56/M/Australia

[–] python@programming.dev 12 points 1 day 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

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I think it's mostly because European are more aware of privacy, open source and such. I see that trend here and in many open source projects, and I browse on US times.

[–] Nemo 1 points 19 hours ago

Older millennial American man, yes, you got me

[–] throwaway19001@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

15/M/Netherlands

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Early 30s /F / North America

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

[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

but for the missing appendage.

If you cant grow your own, storebought is fine.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

13 / M / Slovenia

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

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 4 points 1 day 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

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 4 points 23 hours ago

Keep it up, don't lose that curiosity!

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Lol, you inspire me dude

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 5 points 1 day ago

36 / M / Germany

Pretty much spot on.

[–] corroded@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Yes/ F/ nope

[–] bluegandalf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago
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