who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)

I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn't see anything relating to it and I'm kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see.
ive been paying attention to interactions but nothing is as good as just asking everyone.

QuantumEyetanglement ,

Nice try Mr. FBI

MeDuViNoX , (edited )
@MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works avatar

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/5218f195-8c3d-4060-9272-0a87f11d38e4.jpeg

(It's a Terry Davis quote. For those that don't know who he is -- you should check him out, it's a pretty wild rabbit hole.)

Threadsdeadbaby ,

Done

all-knight-party ,
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

I accidentally read an extremely dry Wikipedia page about a British politician until I realized that you meant the TempleOS guy. I agree, very interesting guy. Too many Terry Davises!

MeDuViNoX ,
@MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works avatar

Terry A. Davis, my bad to everyone reading about a boring Terry because of me.

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

I was hoping to one day see someone make a comment like this lmao

bi_tux ,
@bi_tux@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/641f43da-965c-49da-bb0f-66afc93cff55.jpeg

xmunk ,

Lemmy has an abnormally tech literate and FOSS "aware" (there's got to be a better term but I'm blanking) user base. The community is small enough that recognizing people isn't unheard of so we tend to be more polite overall - with a smaller community there's less of a sense of anonymity and more social accountability. Oh, we tend to be rather left leaning but, to be honest, "The universe has a well known liberal bias".

Other than those factors we're a mix of folks.

Track_Shovel ,

Tech literate and Foss aware

Lawl. Speak for yourself: I'm a luddite - I just asked someone 'what is a foss'

Is this is what happened to my parents when the internet came along and computers started being a thing? I swore to God that would never happen to me

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You figured out the Fediverse, you're not that much of a luddite.

SupraMario , (edited )

You shouldn't feel to bad gen x and millennials created the web and how most tech is today. The generation after these are damn near tech illiterate. If it's not an app or buttons to click they're lost.

Track_Shovel ,

This warms my geriatric millennial heart

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Technically, every generation up until now contributed to modern tech.

But anyway, even if we consider just those who did directly, I am pretty sure you should still also include boomers and even the silent generation.
Check out the computer chronicles: https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles?sort=date

Seems modern enough already.

SupraMario ,

Some boomers definitely helped in it, but do remember even the youngest boomers are 60+ now. While they did help, it wasn't anywhere near what gen x and then millennials did. Not discounting them at all. Also while yes the younger era of the net with darpa is from boomers and the silent gen, I'm more talking about what the web and tech is today. They %100 laid the foundation, we just built the rest.

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

wowee is it really that bad for them?
I wouldve thought since they grew up with tech that it would just be intuitive to them.

SupraMario ,

It's on par or worse than boomers. Do remember these kids grew up with mainly cell phones, very few had to actually learn how to type and use a computer. Go to r/teachers and you will see countless stores of how far behind they are compared to each previous year. I feel like millennials and Gen X strived for the easiest and best user experience, which means less having to figure things out like we did.

xmunk ,

Abnormally tech literate and FOSS aware - we've got lots of people who aren't and I didn't mean to imply we're all in that camp.

This isn't a tech forum so self-identified luddites are welcome!

AdamEatsAss ,

I'm here!

swab148 ,
@swab148@startrek.website avatar

Yeah you are!

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

now what 0.0

AdamEatsAss ,

I don't know, memes?

dan , (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I'm an Aussie in my early-mid 30s. I've been living in the USA for the past 11 years. I've been a software developer, mostly focusing on web development, since the late 90s personally and since the mid 2000s professionally. I was an early Digg user, moved to Reddit during the Digg exodus, then moved to Lemmy during the Reddit exodus.

I believe that people on the internet should own their platform, for example run their own blog or e-commerce site, participate in decentralized services like Lemmy, etc. Opera Unite was something I found very interesting in terms of allowing people to easily run their own decentralized stuff, and I'm kinda sad it never took off. I self-host things like email and DNS.

I'm a big believer in open-source software and released my first piece of OSS in 2005.

I love listening to people that are passionate about something and get excited when talking about it. Doesn't really matter what it is or if it's a topic I'm interested in.

bi_tux ,
@bi_tux@lemmy.world avatar

I'm an it student from central europe

Mycatiskai ,

I'm an early 40s guy who moved north to get away from the city and live a more relaxed life in a small town.
I'm liking it so far except the country music that my new job has on the radio but I'm doing more physical work again which is better for my health than sitting on my ass all day as a manager at my last job.

A_Chilean_Cyborg ,
@A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl avatar

I'm a southmerican engineering student, 19.

Delusion6903 ,

56, in Alabama. Pharmacist. Use Pop!_OS on a System76 Darter Pro. I've never used Reddit but I'm a regular on Mastodon and Pixelfed. Also use X. No other social media.

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

Since lemmy is decentralized, the demographics are going to vary greatly depending on the instance. You’d have to create a pretty generalized poll and then post to most of the major instances to get anything close to even a general read.

jeffw ,

On Hexbear, for example, everyone shares their Russian heritage and, presumably, the same employer

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

On Hexbear, for example, everyone shares their Russian heritage and, presumably, the same genes

Ftfy

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

I know well enough to have that instance blocked

JetpackJackson ,

What's wrong with hexbear? I must've missed something

jeffw ,

What’s wrong with any tankie shill?

JetpackJackson ,

Oh. Yikes

Lemmeenym ,

Hexbear seems a little passive, they could be a little more aggressive in their interactions. Also they don't include enough random spam and shit posting when they find a thread they want to interact with. What's really sad though is that they only tend to engage with one or two representatives instead of sending every user on their server into the thread.

livus ,

@JetpackJackson this community had a thread on them last week, scroll a bit and you'll soon see it.

JetpackJackson ,

Alright, thank you.

livus ,

This is true.

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

at first I wasnt picturing how that would work exactly but then I realized you are a bit locked down into your own communities a bit unless you intentionally explore other areas or mainly look at the everything section

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

Not so much. One has the freedom to explore and subscribe and participate in communities across the lemmyverse (mostly) regardless of what one’s home instance is.

However, one’s home instance often has quite the influence on one’s… perspective and one’s exposure— even one’s intended exposure.

For example, one will probably have a notably different experience if one starts from Lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml (or even lemmygrad.ml) vs lemm.ee. Or, especially Beehaw.org. And that experience may color how one views how one experiences external communities.

My point is that it’s mor complex and nuanced than you’re giving it credit for.

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

interesting

AllNewTypeFace ,
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space avatar

Think of it as the cool/bad kids’ table in the special-needs school cafeteria

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

lmao

Trollivier ,

I'm here to have a experience similar to reddit, without the negative load on my mental health.

all-knight-party ,
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

Do you feel like that's been accomplished here?

Trollivier ,

Less content than I used to follow on reddit, but much less toxic. So, partially.

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

I havent used Lemmy much and only made a reddit account like a year ago after reading reddit posts for many years on and off but I alresy feel like this is the case on Lemmy.

CloutAtlas ,

in my experience, Lemmy is 33.33% owls

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

what's this mean?

recklessengagement ,

Would be cool to do a census.

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

that it would be haha
maybe this will spark someone to actually do that 0.0

JoMiran ,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

I'm 51 and have been neck deep in tech since I can remember. On Linux since RedHat Halloween. The fediverse reminds me of the early days of the internet when it was all Usenet, IRC, GeoCities, etc.

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

I'm sometimes a little jelly about those that got to experience that era of the internet.
I was born right on 2k and I still grew up feeling a little bit of that very briefly as a kid but not to any major degree.

bardmoss ,

I am probably blowing the statistics way out, but I'm 71, a podcaster on three shows, no degree, no computer experience except personal, poor, living in a trailer, in Eastern Tennessee.

Track_Shovel ,

Bruh

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Podcast links? Please and thank you. Sounds interesting.

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You still didn't answer the most important question of Lemmy, though. ^(joke)^

Do you use GNU+Linux?

BlueEther ,
@BlueEther@no.lastname.nz avatar

sometimes it is a good reference point though

BlueEther ,
@BlueEther@no.lastname.nz avatar

i think ive seen a few in your age bracket. there seems to be a good amount that must be around the 50+ mark

LanternEverywhere ,

Love it! Glad to have you here!

PrincessLeiasCat ,

You sound kind of amazing.

livus ,

That's the perspective I need. Clicked follow.

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

sounds like many would love to see your podcast! myself included

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