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submitted 2 weeks ago by corroded@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like an anonymous survey would be much more privacy respecting than everyone commenting with their demographics…

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 16 points 2 weeks ago

"Nice try... FBI"

[–] fool@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

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