There have been several polls. We’re older and more female than you think.
How female are you?
I’ve been feeling more female ever since I got here, but maybe there’s no correlation
-75%
Hey, Imaginary Percentages, cool!
i%
To generate Complex Demographic on a Cartesian plane.
FEEEEMALE.
uh huh. That’s absolutely how women refer to themselves.
In that context it makes sense though, it’s being used as an adjective, as is “older”.
We’re not studying the breeding cycle of bats.
I’m 30, so naturally I assume everyone else is too
28 and same. A lot more millennial energy here than Gen z. Honestly Lemmy feels like 2012 reddit to me so I assume it’s mostly the same age group as me and a bit older. 🤷
Pretty sure everyone in the world is either 30, 60 or a child.
I’m 31. From what I’ve seen, a large portion are around this age. I think there’s very few young people.
I think of 31 as pretty young.
Fair. I guess children would be a better word, although I also think it’s low on 18-25 at least too.
not completely correct! 19
31, assume the same
I think mostly 30s and 40s based on the memes
I posted a thing from 8 bit theater and it got a lot of upvoted. Definitely old people.
Is this just our generation’s facebook? Damnit.
Well… at least we know how to use the internet i guess.
More like the original demographic of Facebook, before it went mainstream
And digg. And reddit. And myspace.
You’re not old unless you have knee pain.
How them knees feeling, Lemmy?
One of mine kind of sucks.
I stacked it on the kerb coming back from the shop the other day and both my knees are now bruised to fuck and have started creaking when I go to stand up. It’s taken my all not to refer to the incident as my having ‘had a fall’ too, for some reason.
I was hoping to at least get past my (current) mid thirties before the knee pain and geriatric language started creeping in.
I’m only in my mid-20s and sometimes feel pretty damn old. Proper body care is important. Don’t be pretty lazy and fairly sedimentary like me.
Most user are in age b/w 30-50 I guess. I am 17 btw.
85% neckbeards
Thanks, I almost forgot to shave 15% of my neck today!
0-100 I believe
As a serious answer, I’d guess Lemmy skews younger. Too many idealists here to think the average user base has the wisdom that comes from experience.
Sorry, younglings. You’ll know when you get older: the long view clearly demonstrates optimism is a lie. History is a corkscrew. Progress is made, but only through endless repetitions of past mistakes.
“Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not a conservative has no brains.”
That’s a limerick conservative parents tell themselves to feel better about their rebellious kids.
And not what I’m talking about at all.
Honestly, it had more validity behind it in the '80s. When you were just starting out your career you didn’t have a house yet you didn’t have any wealth amassed, The ideals of the left really shown through. But once you got older and started having some money, the fiscal Republican ticket sold you on tax cuts and provided boosts to help certain investment opportunities. It was still mostly just bullshit to make themselves rich but there was some financial opportunity there. It’s pretty much long gone for middle-class advantage anymore though.
Things fascists say.
Younger than 30yo the technical knowledge declines rapidly, so it’s very unlikely for them to be here.
Mileage will vary. I have gotten a lot better when it comes to tech (mainly software) in the past 3 years, as someone who is only in the middle of his 20s.
I too am in my mid 20s and I generally have gotten more tech literate in the last couple years, though mostly hardware since software is the devil.
I personally view hardware as the devil, so we’re kinda opposites in that regard.
Atleast when hardware decides to catastrophically fail it makes a lot of noise about it a solid chunk of the time.
Seems like a young crowd to me based on the often naive and idealistic post replies. OTOH, I’m very often surprised that so many seem my age (50s).
Reassessing after this week’s events, most of the users I would have previously guessed were high school sophomores are probably adult Americans.
25-35
I think it varies greatly. The trans communities, for instance, seem to tread younger and I get the sense that many posters are teenagers. Tech communities, on the other hand, seem 30s-40s.
Around 9 years old. Could be some 11 year olds in there.
I’m only 9 because thats when I died.
spooooooky
I have a 5 digit slashdot id.
I’d say we probably skew more towards 30s-40s a lot of us are transplants from other sites and have been around the block a few times - there are certainly younger folks too, but they had to somehow trip over fediverse tech through a fluke.
That’s a great point, we’ve been around the block so we’re less receptive to enshittification bullshit
Yep, 37 here.
I found Digg just before the Exodus and hung around Reddit for a decade or so then split during the Reddit blackout.39 here, exact same backstory.
Wow. Same for me. Digg just before the implosion, then reddit for 10ish years then here. 52.
Similar age here.
Not into social media and Reddit now sucks.
I’m 27, and came here after the reddit blackout. Digg was before my time on the Internet. What was it like?
Don’t forget /.
I stayed around that one for way, way too long.
Did you have to peg me that hard before we’ve even met
It’s my usual ice breaker.
