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Interstellar_1 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

3mo ago

What do you think the age demographic on Lemmy is?

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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.
- 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.
  
  Don’t forget /.
  I stayed around that one for way, way too long.
  
  39 here, exact same backstory.
  
  I'm 27, and came here after the reddit blackout. Digg was before my time on the Internet. What was it like?
- Did you have to peg me that hard before we've even met
  
  It's my usual ice breaker.
- That's a great point, we've been around the block so we're less receptive to enshittification bullshit

Based on this poll with 599 participants from the german !ich_iel@feddit.org 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.
- Also see stats from:
  Lemmy.nz - https://lemmy.nz/post/12001861
  Lemmy.ca - https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231
  Which are pretty similar.
- Yeah, prolly shifts older by 1 or 2 demographics, is my guess.
- Two 13-15 year old users
  Does Lemmy even have a minimum age or TOS?
  
  Nope, Lemmy is just the software after all. It would be up to the individual instances to set up some kind of TOS or age verification.

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%
- 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".

I would estimate
15% <25
60% 25-40
25% 40+
Y'all be showing your age sometimes 😅
- I'm old as fuck. I definitely show my age as often as possible.
  
  I showed my age in public and now I'm on a list... I keep getting AARP mailers.
- Get off my lawn
  
  Our lawn!
- 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
- Awww man, I'm 2 years away from a bracket change.... My knees hurt more now.

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. 🤷
- 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.
  
  not completely correct! 19
- Pretty sure everyone in the world is either 30, 60 or a child.
- 31, assume the same

There's at least one 57 year old.
- Two.
  
  Three.
  Do we have to be 57? I just wanted to be part of a counting train.

0-100 I believe

My steam account is nearly 20, lol
- Had the same email address for 27 years...
  
  Solid, and still your main? My Hotmail would be similar age, but it's hardly used these days
- My first browser was GOPHER.

85% neckbeards
- Thanks, I almost forgot to shave 15% of my neck today!

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.
  
  You're not old unless you have knee pain.
  How them knees feeling, Lemmy?
  One of mine kind of sucks.

I'm 19!

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).

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

I'm 18 if that's any help 🙃
- Ayy, me 2

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.
  
  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.

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

Around 9 years old. Could be some 11 year olds in there.
- I'm only 9 because thats when I died.
  
  spooooooky

Reassessing after this week's events, most of the users I would have previously guessed were high school sophomores are probably adult Americans.

18 - 30

Most user are in age b/w 30-50 I guess. I am 17 btw.

~13-50

I have a 5 digit slashdot id.

Not sure, I'm mid thirties though
- This few years are the largest single age years in us population. I think 34 is peak. In US at least.

i think we should poll in it

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.

74-89

I don't want to be specific but I'm on the younger side of college age

25-35

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- I find this being an ageist take. Not everyone is immature.
  
  Also, speaking as someone who's entered his 50th year, shitposting in alternative venues is not really a sign of maturity.
  
  "Fart you, fart him, fart all y'all."
- I mean an average teen aint gonna find Lemmy or even like using Fediverse stuff
  So does this make me an above average or below average teen?
  
  Depends if you are 19 or 119?
  (119 is technically a "teen" ager? no?)
  
  Yesn't
  
  i'd like to know too
- Hello, I am your average Teen(17).

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