Whats the lemmy demographic?

Don't forget that 98% of 14 year olds will not pipe up and go "Yeeeaahh! I'm just 14 in here!" This data has always been impossible to gather, as you simply cannot gather it objectively, it's currently impossible at the technical level.
Throughout my teen years, whenever I had to submit real info for something, my name was Bob Barker and I just made up everything else on the spot. The computer had no way to verify if I am being honest, and I knew that.
And on that note, I am a snotty-nosed 14 year old.
- I assumed they're all on the gaming and meme communities. Oh, and porn.
  Just wondering why this seems nicer than r/ and thought maybe it was less young people.
  We know you're not 14 because ..
  Punctuation
  14 yr olds don't know they're snotty. 🙃
  
  14 year olds also don't know who Bob Barker is.
  
  I was very interested in learning, during my youth. Not just the things my elders wanted me to see, either. I wanted to see it all. That even included world news and politics. It's best not to stereotype teenagers, their array of diversity actually surpasses most other demographics in my experience.
  
  I always thought reddit just picked the demographic that sounded best to advertisers, how would anyone know for sure?
  
  My guess is that Lemmy is a new platform. The fediverse is also new to most people (myself included) and that leads to people genuinely replying to posts instead of trolling around.
- Lol there are many techniques used to sniff them out that are pretty reliable, you fooled noone with that approach.
  
  I am absolutely a hip and cool 14 year old. I have no idea what you are talking about.

Female and old enough to be an avid user of IRC, AOL chatrooms, Myspace, etc.
- Then there are at least two of us!
  
  Third one checking in!
- mIRC life

Female - old enough to have adult children, but not old enough to retire.
- Having adult children sounds like it would rip you from arsehole to bellybutton dear
- same, except male, and my wife and I started late so our children are nowhere near adults yet 😭
  
  Started early and thought we'd be done early. You're never done. Kids never give back the house key.

19/f/cali

Nice try, FBI.
- Darn. Foiled again.

I was there when All Your Base meme was first birthed, 3000 years ago...
- I was there when Kraftwerk made songs about computers being in every home and it was science fiction.
  
  Where were you when video killed the radio star?
- I had an all your base t shirt in high school. 2 people got the joke lol

I think the majority are 40+.
Except for memes communities. They are 12.
- That's kind of what i was thinking. Lot less rage here than on r/.

Mid 30s white man techy checking in
- I'm in this comment! But closer to 40 haha

Early 30s woman, married without children, and in grad school.

Guys, remember to only reveal information about yourself that you want to remain forever on the internet, and linked to your username. Also remember that someone who wants to find you in IRL will be using multiple vectors so even if you think it's only one datapoint, people can look at datapoints from multiple sources and paint a pretty accurate picture of who you are.

The community here feels like it skews a little older than reddit, probably more male than female, and more tech savvy than average.
I imagine it's a lot of the same demographic that were early adopters of reddit in the late 00s, early 10s.

I'm a 38 year old boy.
Not a man, a boy.
- Haha, reminds me of that meme. Guy, age 25, former child. It was explaining when you have no life experience.
  Edit: link
  
  How do you get to be 25 without life experience? You've experienced life for 25 years!

(Older) Millennial woman in New England
- Also a Millennial in New England 🫸🫷. Male though.
  
  Is this the start of a budding romance?! Maybe a friendship with roots in millennial lemmyism?!

Male, Late 20s
- Late 20s male gang

This question is basically "a/s/l?"
And since I know that, you know at least how old I am
- 19/f/California?
  
  19/f/California
  Internet young'ns, this is how we know it's a 40ish year old dude
- Had to go look up a/s/l.

Guy who is old enough to use his first computer to get on a BBS to get this type of experience
- I had a friend in elementary school whose family had a phone modem and did bulletin board stuff. Pre AOL old-timer.

Average 20M doomer

Not my demo.

Mid-30s woman.

I'm a dude that's old enough to drink two and a half times in the US.

Woman in her 40s here.

a/s/l
N64 was my childhood console years old/ no thanks/banjo country

female in early twenties

non-binary (but in that age bracket 🙃)
hi!
e: I'm not on my home instance, is saying you're non-binary enough to warrant getting downvoted here?
- I don't think so. I promise not to look at your junk or investigate who you are/aren't sleeping with.
  
  I was negative for a bit there, was just wondering if I had the culture on this instance clocked wrong
- Based on the memes I've been seeing, I think there's more queer than straight people in the fediverse

F early 30s

Watched the moon landing live. m
- Live?! 😉
  
  Actually, probably a few seconds delay, but yes, live.

Male who remembers getting Chex Quest on CD-ROM in a cereal box
- Male who remembers Lucky Charms before they added those newfangled purple horseshoes.

40s m, onions, tomatoes, garlic.

Sorry to disappoint, but I'm in that demographic as a man aged 30. 😂

I'm not as techy as the stereotype seems to portray, but otherwise, yeah, I'm a white guy in my 30's.
- I'm a 40-something lawyer by training with an English degree, but I guess I like enough nerdy stuff and hung out with enough engineers and coders that I am not too far off from the expected.
- I thought i was non-techy but in my office I'm one of two people who can add a printer, so i guess it's all relative.
  
  Same, I'm not really technical at all but because I can use formulas in Excel I'm Gandalf.
  A V-Lookup? What witchcraft is this?

60 / M / NYC suburbs

20/f

I’m a 50 ur old man.

That's my exact demo

Older than that by about 20 years here, but I'm on kbin.social, where it tends to be pretty diverse - there's a pretty even balance of posting by gender, where it can be determined. It definitely feels more friendly towards minorities here than some of the lemmy instances. I think it really depends on what instance you're on.

Age is not hardwired to things like posting behavior, personal views and affinity to technology. There are people younger than me who use their phone like my mom and write comments my grandpa would think are backwards thinking.
- Totally, but I've seen several comments where people mention talking to their kids about topics, or other experiences that tend to lean a little older.

21/m

I'm a dude beyond my 30's at this point. What would you guess is the demographics? I'd say that a typical being a 20s/30s M is about right, although it seems there's a higher portion of women and trans people here (or at least describing themselves as such).
- I was thinking older and a bigger percentage of female than expected - not half, but not zero either.

Male, and turning 39 today!
- Happy birthday! 🎂
- Happy birthday bro

40s / M / Buffalo 'burbs

65 Male Pacific NW

I'm a fresh young 40yr old male. My joints.
- Snap crackle pop joints slowly rise up.

53m

Are you looking for only people who access ActivityPub content via a Lemmy instance, or are other platforms allowed to respond?
- Anyone.

Dude in his late 20s

I think it is younger guys more than anyone else. In what way do the comments not fit that ?
- Of 30 answers, I counted 19 that are either older than 30s or non-male. Maybe 3/4 male and about half under 40?

Early thirties male. Most on here are lefties, I personally am right wing.
- Right wing like...
  "I've thought about a lot of things and most of my opinions lie a little right of center,"
  or like
  "I think I'll join a cult behind a former game show host. Also I failed high school science but it's okay because there's this dude on the internet taught me everything I need to know about the universe."
  
  The former.
  But to expand on that, (and to let you make your own decision),
  I think gun control is racist, and an attack on our liberties.
  I believe in free speech.
  I think big corporations need to be heavily regulated, but small businesses should have more leeway. (There should be a line in which something becomes a public utility, but I'm not sure exactly where that line lies)
  I think abortion is murder. (There could be an argument for self defense in very specific circumstances)
  I think trans people are mentally ill and need help, but it's ultimately their choice to transition, like a worse version of getting a face tattoo. (This also means kids shouldn't transition since they can't consent.)
  I think parental rights are important, especially vs the government.
  I do not trust the government, or rather I trust the government to lie and fuck everyone over.
  I believe adults are adults, and should be treated like such. No weird bans on what we can read or otherwise consume. Many countries these days have morality bans, like India and their ineffective porn ban, or Australia and their hentai ban. Singapore and bubble gum.
- This is just a great response. Are you waiting to be persecuted for something?
  Quick, someone say something nice about LGBTQ people so he can respond and get banned.