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.

j4k3 ,
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You'll find a lot of FOSS developers on here. This is a general community and all that, but there is a large Linux and open source software interest here. Some people simply don't understand things like the scope of FOSS software in terms of both users and developers, so that can create some tension at times. There are a lot of experts and radical thinkers in this space. You may or may not find help on super niche questions, but say something wrong or poorly, and you're likely to find the experts soon thereafter. For instance, I am confident enough to ask advanced course computer science questions and get useful answers here. I find this place useful for second sourcing info from AI that I find plausible but sketchy. Like I got into fermentation but have no interest in the whole commercialized nonsense hobby junk. Almost all sources are poisoned by commercial interests and misguided nonsense. Just asking here gets lots of people with practical knowledge on fundamental techniques from long before it was some commercialized hobby.

The group behind the fediverse is very diverse and that diversity is reflected in the user space here in Lemmy.

Sabata11792 ,

I'm here for shitposting, anime titties, and saying disproportionately cruel things about rich people.

grue , (edited )

anime titties

Ah, a world politics enjoyer.

Sabata11792 ,

No. The I dissociated with reality kind.

AsherahTheEnd ,

I'm here because I got permabanned on Reddit haha. Chuds mass reported me multiple times and Reddit got sick of it, I guess. Probably for the best, the website is a true shithole nowadays and absolutely overrun with literal children.

grue , (edited )

I was planning to leave with the mass-migration a year ago anyway, but Reddit conveniently suspended my account for "mod abuse" because the snowflake r/conservative mods were butthurt that I was reporting the misinformation they were trying to spread.

(In other words, it proved to me that Reddit is run by fascists.)

Today ,

Female, old, non-techie but in the one fourth of people in my office who can set up a printer.

doeknius_gloek ,

One of us! One of us! One of us!

CloutAtlas ,

in my experience, Lemmy is 33.33% owls

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

what's this mean?

robocall ,
@robocall@lemmy.world avatar

I don't want to post a small bio of myself for privacy purposes but you could read through my post history to learn some things about me.

livus ,

As a late gen x/"xennial" myself I've noticed there's proportionally more of us here than on other social media.

Tends to be left of centre even without factoring in the communistanarchistsocialist nexus, but also wider political range.

Tends to skew STEM.

Loves cats as much as the rest of the internet but proportionally loves FOSS more.

Strong rainbow presence.

Ziglin ,

There's lots of LGBTQ+ and FOSS (I wonder why lol). Star Trek and science are also becoming rather common (or it just took me a while to find the right communities). I also get the feeling that the age bracket is larger than on other platforms and people seem to be nicer too (at least compared to the month or so I spent looking through Reddit before finding Lemmy).

Following is more about the kinds of post than users. (I don't want to waste your time if that's not what you meant by "common things people see")
There's also some videogame and pornography communities (I'm sure there's combinations too) so I do set my client to blur nsfw images and I block video game communities for games I don't play/don't want spoilers from.

Lots of webcomics also seem to be (automatically?) uploaded to their respective communities.

AlexWIWA ,

People that miss forums

The_Che_Banana ,
@The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org avatar

Yo!

Emperor ,
@Emperor@feddit.uk avatar

That's me.

ilovecheese ,
@ilovecheese@feddit.uk avatar

Still mainly use them!

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.

Snapz ,

Different per instance, but generally, it feels to me like the conscience and reason from Reddit left the body on that day and moved in here at Lemmy. It hasn't gone back since.

Blaze ,
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More language diverse than Reddit, especially on language based instances. Shout out to the Germans who seem much more active than other languages (such as French or Spanish)

fmstrat ,

We are Reddit before it became... Reddit.

Yerbouti ,

I'm on Lemmy and I'm also hyperopic. Therefore, Lemmy is a community with at least one hyperopic.

multifariace ,

I am a nonconformist American in my 40s.
I'm a Florida native and middle school science teacher.
I hate perpetually divisive culture and the corruption that drives it.
I read mostly non-fiction, such as history and neuropsychology.
I have little to no interest in computer tech, anime or video games.
I left Reddit last year like many of you.

some_guy ,

Teachers are some of the best people. I have a lot of respect for you for doing something so worthwhile. I long for the day when we pay you a lot of money.

hanrahan ,
@hanrahan@slrpnk.net avatar

I'm a Florida native and middle school science teacher.

That getting harder ? The while anti climate science thing creeping in ? Creationism?

That aside, thank you...for being a teacher I mean.

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