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[–] xmunk 120 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Don’t forget /.

I stayed around that one for way, way too long.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

39 here, exact same backstory.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you have to peg me that hard before we've even met

[–] xmunk 10 points 1 week ago

It's my usual ice breaker.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Based on this poll with 599 participants from the german [email protected] community, most of us are somewhere between 20 and 40 years old.

This is only a small fraction of lemmy users, maybe it just represents the age range of german meme enjoyers on lemmy, but I don't know of any other poll with a sample size this big.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Also see stats from:

Which are pretty similar.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There have been several polls. We're older and more female than you think.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

I've been feeling more female ever since I got here, but maybe there's no correlation

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[–] imaqtpie 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I would estimate

15% <25

60% 25-40

25% 40+

Y'all be showing your age sometimes 😅

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm old as fuck. I definitely show my age as often as possible.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I showed my age in public and now I'm on a list... I keep getting AARP mailers.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I'd agree with your breakdown. I'm early 40s and I feel like most people here are give or take 10 years of me

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[–] QuantumSparkles 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I’m 30, so naturally I assume everyone else is too

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

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. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm 31. From what I've seen, a large portion are around this age. I think there's very few young people.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's at least one 57 year old.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Three.

Do we have to be 57? I just wanted to be part of a counting train.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My steam account is nearly 20, lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Had the same email address for 27 years...

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

0-100 I believe

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Thanks, I almost forgot to shave 15% of my neck today!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think mostly 30s and 40s based on the memes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I posted a thing from 8 bit theater and it got a lot of upvoted. Definitely old people.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this just our generation's facebook? Damnit.

Well... at least we know how to use the internet i guess.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More like the original demographic of Facebook, before it went mainstream

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Hi 19 I'm dad.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not an expert but I believe it's because they were born 19 years ago

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh. Looks like I got whoooshed

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm 18 if that's any help 🙃

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I have no idea but I imagine most should be younger than I am (50+)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

younger than on Mastodon (where it’s overwhelmingly 40+)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Younger than 30yo the technical knowledge declines rapidly, so it's very unlikely for them to be here.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Around 9 years old. Could be some 11 year olds in there.

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