Asklemmy @lemmy.ml corroded @lemmy.world 2d ago

A/S/L

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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Yes.
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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.
Most maybe, but every other demographic is just valid a contributer to the conversation
Nah. I'm an 18-year-old male from Pakistan
No, no, and yes.
Too old to understand why you’re asking about American Sign Language
80's, female, born in the US and now (thankfully) an AU citizen.
- ’80s*
  
  *80s'
Male, 90s, South Asia.
- 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?
Early 90s, male, North America
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)
Omg this is getting silly. Asklemmy really is just a user profiling feed.
- Lemmings of Lemmy: What's your blood type and eyeglass prescription?
I am surprised that this post received so many genuine answers.
90s, SEA
- You're a fish?
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
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)
Millennial/dude/midwest
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.
Put in the legwork to find me Mr alphabet soup man. I know you can do it, you're just being lazy.
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
90s, non-binary and south america.
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.
Sad / trans girl / looking for laugh-out-louds

Anonymous polling would be nice
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
- 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.
56/M/Australia
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.
50s / M / North America and I lived "Ye Old Days" when A/S/L was created.
Early 30s /F / North America

I'm close to the right demographic, but for the missing appendage.
- but for the missing appendage.
  
  If you cant grow your own, storebought is fine.
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.
15/M/Netherlands
I'll start: 39/M/US, so yeah, I fit the demographic.
I do
Older millennial American man, yes, you got me
36 / M / Germany

Pretty much spot on.
Yes/ F/ nope
27 / M / Tanzania
29/M/UK
36 / M / Canada. I fit
No/Yes/Yes
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.
18 / M / Slovakia
True apart from being born around 2000
No / Yes / No (unless you meant Europe)
That demo also covers the Linux and "libre" media enjoyers userbase 🤣

I feel attacked!

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