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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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[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

45 / male/ Montreal

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I am female, so I guess I don't. As for my age and location, that's classified

[–] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week 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 4 points 1 week 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 33 points 1 week 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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[–] lazzerot@startrek.website 32 points 1 week 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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420/Yes please/Your mother's bedroom

(I understand the curiosity, but come on now)

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

16 / M / Ireland

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

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week 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.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week 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.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago

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

Anonymous polling would be nice

[–] kankan@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week 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.

[–] python@programming.dev 13 points 1 week 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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[–] mub@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

AB positive. 20/20. Don't abuse that info pls.

Damn it actually works for some reason.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] indomara@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 5 points 1 week 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 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Keep it up, don't lose that curiosity!

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Lol, you inspire me dude

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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] laz@lemmy.umucat.day 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sicarius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week 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?

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

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

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week 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 week ago

but for the missing appendage.

If you cant grow your own, storebought is fine.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago
[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 5 points 1 week ago

36 / M / Germany

Pretty much spot on.

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

56/M/Australia

[–] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Yes/ F/ nope

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

18 / M / Slovakia

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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

27 / M / Tanzania

[–] Presently42@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

36 / M / Canada. I fit

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