2y ago

Whats the lemmy demographic?

I keep seeing people comment that Lemmy is mostly men in their 20s and 30s. That's not my demo and many of the posts/comments i see don't seem to fit that.

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Don't forget that 98% of 14 year olds will not pipe up and go "Yeeeaahh! I'm just 14 in here!" This data has always been impossible to gather, as you simply cannot gather it objectively, it's currently impossible at the technical level.
Throughout my teen years, whenever I had to submit real info for something, my name was Bob Barker and I just made up everything else on the spot. The computer had no way to verify if I am being honest, and I knew that.
And on that note, I am a snotty-nosed 14 year old.
- I assumed they're all on the gaming and meme communities. Oh, and porn.
  Just wondering why this seems nicer than r/ and thought maybe it was less young people.
  We know you're not 14 because ..
  Punctuation
  14 yr olds don't know they're snotty. 🙃
  
  14 year olds also don't know who Bob Barker is.
  
  I was very interested in learning, during my youth. Not just the things my elders wanted me to see, either. I wanted to see it all. That even included world news and politics. It's best not to stereotype teenagers, their array of diversity actually surpasses most other demographics in my experience.
  
  I always thought reddit just picked the demographic that sounded best to advertisers, how would anyone know for sure?
  
  My guess is that Lemmy is a new platform. The fediverse is also new to most people (myself included) and that leads to people genuinely replying to posts instead of trolling around.
- Lol there are many techniques used to sniff them out that are pretty reliable, you fooled noone with that approach.
  
  I am absolutely a hip and cool 14 year old. I have no idea what you are talking about.
Female and old enough to be an avid user of IRC, AOL chatrooms, Myspace, etc.
- Then there are at least two of us!
  
  Third one checking in!
- mIRC life
Female - old enough to have adult children, but not old enough to retire.
19/f/cali
Nice try, FBI.
- Darn. Foiled again.
I was there when All Your Base meme was first birthed, 3000 years ago...
- I was there when Kraftwerk made songs about computers being in every home and it was science fiction.
  
  Where were you when video killed the radio star?
- I had an all your base t shirt in high school. 2 people got the joke lol
I think the majority are 40+.
Except for memes communities. They are 12.
- That's kind of what i was thinking. Lot less rage here than on r/.
Mid 30s white man techy checking in
- I'm in this comment! But closer to 40 haha
Early 30s woman, married without children, and in grad school.
The community here feels like it skews a little older than reddit, probably more male than female, and more tech savvy than average.
I imagine it's a lot of the same demographic that were early adopters of reddit in the late 00s, early 10s.
Guys, remember to only reveal information about yourself that you want to remain forever on the internet, and linked to your username. Also remember that someone who wants to find you in IRL will be using multiple vectors so even if you think it's only one datapoint, people can look at datapoints from multiple sources and paint a pretty accurate picture of who you are.
I'm a 38 year old boy.
Not a man, a boy.
- Haha, reminds me of that meme. Guy, age 25, former child. It was explaining when you have no life experience.
  Edit: link
  
  How do you get to be 25 without life experience? You've experienced life for 25 years!
Male, Late 20s
- Late 20s male gang
Millennial woman in New England
- Also a Millennial in New England 🫸🫷. Male though.
  
  Is this the start of a budding romance?! Maybe a friendship with roots in millennial lemmyism?!
Mid-30s woman.
Not my demo.
This question is basically "a/s/l?"
And since I know that, you know at least how old I am
- 19/f/California?
  
  19/f/California
  Internet young'ns, this is how we know it's a 40ish year old dude
- Had to go look up a/s/l.
Woman in her 40s here.
Guy who is old enough to use his first computer to get on a BBS to get this type of experience
- I had a friend in elementary school whose family had a phone modem and did bulletin board stuff. Pre AOL old-timer.
I'm a dude that's old enough to drink two and a half times in the US.
female in early twenties
F early 30s
Watched the moon landing live. m
- Live?! 😉
  
  Actually, probably a few seconds delay, but yes, live.
40s m, onions, tomatoes, garlic.
60 / M / NYC suburbs
I'm a dude beyond my 30's at this point. What would you guess is the demographics? I'd say that a typical being a 20s/30s M is about right, although it seems there's a higher portion of women and trans people here (or at least describing themselves as such).
- I was thinking older and a bigger percentage of female than expected - not half, but not zero either.
Male who remembers getting Chex Quest on CD-ROM in a cereal box
- Male who remembers Lucky Charms before they added those newfangled purple horseshoes.
I'm a fresh young 40yr old male. My joints.
- Snap crackle pop joints slowly rise up.
I'm not as techy as the stereotype seems to portray, but otherwise, yeah, I'm a white guy in my 30's.
- I'm a 40-something lawyer by training with an English degree, but I guess I like enough nerdy stuff and hung out with enough engineers and coders that I am not too far off from the expected.
- I thought i was non-techy but in my office I'm one of two people who can add a printer, so i guess it's all relative.
  
  Same, I'm not really technical at all but because I can use formulas in Excel I'm Gandalf.
  A V-Lookup? What witchcraft is this?
53m
Age is not hardwired to things like posting behavior, personal views and affinity to technology. There are people younger than me who use their phone like my mom and write comments my grandpa would think are backwards thinking.
- Totally, but I've seen several comments where people mention talking to their kids about topics, or other experiences that tend to lean a little older.
I’m a 50 ur old man.
20/f
Are you looking for only people who access ActivityPub content via a Lemmy instance, or are other platforms allowed to respond?
- Anyone.
Male, and turning 39 today!
- Happy birthday! 🎂
- Happy birthday bro
Dude in his late 20s
That's my exact demo
- Of 30 answers, I counted 19 that are either older than 30s or non-male. Maybe 3/4 male and about half under 40?
65 Male Pacific NW
40s / M / Buffalo 'burbs
21/m
Older than that by about 20 years here, but I'm on kbin.social, where it tends to be pretty diverse - there's a pretty even balance of posting by gender, where it can be determined. It definitely feels more friendly towards minorities here than some of the lemmy instances. I think it really depends on what instance you're on.

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