Asklemmy @lemmy.ml corroded @lemmy.world 2w 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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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)
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?
- Decade of birth and vague global region isn't really so identifiable lol
420/Yes please/Your mother's bedroom

(I understand the curiosity, but come on now)
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
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.
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.
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.
Sad / trans girl / looking for laugh-out-louds

Anonymous polling would be nice
Omg this is getting silly. Asklemmy really is just a user profiling feed.
- Lemmings of Lemmy: What's your blood type and eyeglass prescription?
  
  AB positive. 20/20. Don't abuse that info pls.
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'
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.
Millennial/dude/midwest
- Ope.
  
  Doncha know
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.
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?
I'll start: 39/M/US, so yeah, I fit the demographic.
Yes.
36 / M / Germany

Pretty much spot on.
56/M/Australia
Nah. I'm an 18-year-old male from Pakistan
Yes/ F/ nope
I am surprised that this post received so many genuine answers.
90s, SEA
- You're a fish?
  
  No this is Patrick
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.
18 / M / Slovakia
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.
36 / M / Canada. I fit
Put in the legwork to find me Mr alphabet soup man. I know you can do it, you're just being lazy.
27 / M / Tanzania
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.
Nope. I am reluctant in sharing the info. But i am not from 80s and i am neither from north america nor from eu .

I am a male though.
15/M/Netherlands
29/M/UK
No/Yes/Yes
Most maybe, but every other demographic is just valid a contributer to the conversation
Thank you but I was born in the 70s. Did you want to see a picture of the burnt orange shag rug in my childhood bedroom?
90s, non-binary and south america.
I do
45 / male/ Montreal
No / Yes / No (unless you meant Europe)
True apart from being born around 2000
Older millennial American man, yes, you got me
That demo also covers the Linux and "libre" media enjoyers userbase 🤣

I feel attacked!
SOME-I-NO-SIGN-GOOD-LONG-TIME

I-SPEAKING-HARD OF HEARING
I am a 13 year old guy from Slovenia, so I somewhat fit this demographic.
30 y/o gentleman from Northern Ireland.

Keep er lit dickheads
Early 90s, male, North America
Yes yes no
Beep/boop/bap
I'm a woman and I was born in the 1990s. I do live in North America though.
I'm wondering what exactly people raising privacy concerns are worried about?

Even if I tell you my ASL, what can you do with that info?

I'm usually very privacy aware.

The big tech firms already have the information, it can also likely be brought on the dark web.

44/M/NZ BTW. Even if I tell you which small town I'm from, it doesn't get you to my doorstep.
I am female, so I guess I don't. As for my age and location, that's classified
No, no, and yes.
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- 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90 year olds are NOT welcome!
- 99/zyxw/ABC

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