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Who do you think your fellow lemmies are?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels like the same Reddit crowd from when I was in college (2011). So I’m guessing we skew towards millennials, early Gen Z folks. Definitely more tech oriented than other platforms that’s for sure. Also just as liberal as Reddit. There is a much larger focus on privacy here as well.

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

just as liberal as Reddit.

Don't let the communists hear you say that

[–] can 11 points 1 year ago

I don't think I even know what a liberal is anymore.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

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

Are you the conductor of the poop train?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's meat bicycle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Okay Dude. Have it your way.

[–] PurpleTentacle 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone on lemmy is a bot except you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself.. I'm a NHI biologic

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect 30ish (+/- 10) males mostly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think i saw somewhere a statistic that supports your claim. And when i remember correctly there was a higher % of woman than on reddit, but i looked at the statistic like a month ago so take it with a grais of salt. Or two

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Elders of the Internet…. Wait the Elders of the Internet know who I am???

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a gen Jones, I see nothing but children. The recent uproar about avoiding open piracy seems to bear that out.

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

What would piracy have to do with age? Pirates run the gamut from preteens to elderly.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my experience, older folks see software/artistic piracy as less morally desirable.

[–] can 5 points 1 year ago

Older folks generally have more money

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not even sure if zoomers know what a torrent is

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IT males from their 40s to 60s.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm an IT male in my 20s. Do I count ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Of course you do, little buddy! Don't knock yourself down. Chin up, sport!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As a Gen Z'er, I can really feel the Millennial vibes permeating throughout Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gen X'ers getting ignored as usual. But we like it that way.

[–] amminadabz 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux users, and people who have not yet become linux users

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a little like saying everything in the universe is either a potato or it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

People that switched from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

To begin with -- we're not what you'd call -- human.

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

The rest of us are AI experiments trying to see if we can pass the Squander trial of the Turing test. How's it going so far?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I knew it brb

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a Gen Y human I feel Lemmy appeals to my traditional forum sensibilities while being slightly streamlined. People used to host forums because they wanted to and not as a means to generate revenue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The only strong guess that comes to my mind is that most people on Lemmy are Western European. I say this because it always seems to be who gets to a fresh new place first. Before the Twitter boom, Twitter was very Euro-centric.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@Squander Let us peel away your petty facades and reveal you for what your truly are!!!


fairly attractive 20-somethings, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddlin' kids

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I'm a twenty year old fascist