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?
45 / male/ Montreal
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.
I am female, so I guess I don’t. As for my age and location, that’s classified
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
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)
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)
Yes.
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.
Too old to understand why you’re asking about American Sign Language
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.
Damn it actually works for some reason.
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
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.
Sad / trans girl / looking for laugh-out-louds
Anonymous polling would be nice
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.
80’s, female, born in the US and now (thankfully) an AU citizen.
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