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.

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.

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.

robocall ,
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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.

CloutAtlas ,

in my experience, Lemmy is 33.33% owls

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

what's this mean?

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!

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.)

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.

j4k3 ,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

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.

QuantumEyetanglement ,

Nice try Mr. FBI

MeDuViNoX , (edited )
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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 ,
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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

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

BlueEther ,
@BlueEther@no.lastname.nz avatar

well for me:

  • just passed 50 last month
  • been kicking around 'PCs' since the vic-20
  • buun using linux since Mandrake Helios (6.1)
  • have self hosted all sorts (including email for nearly 10 yrs, not any more other than a relay for my lemmy)
  • had a mastodon instance for about 2-3 years - but use mastodon.nz
  • spun up my instance of lemmy just as the exodus started
  • been into tinkering with electronics from childhood

I guess that puts me in the the tech group that seems very common here

other groups that seem well represented are the 'left' and lgbqt+

some_guy ,

I’m a guy whose high school credits weren’t going to transfer so I got my GED (no diploma) and took university classes for a couple years. I got a job in tech based entirely on being self taught. I’m a cis white male, so I’ve had a lot of structural advantages.

Here’s the really fucked up part: I now moved over to a gubment job because I was uniquely qualified. None of my peers could believe it cause I’m a socialist who loathes the USA political system. But a job’s a job and this one is cushy af.

2 cats and live with my partner. Musician (as a hobby). All that stuff.

Achyu ,

Isn't it good that a socialist is in those jobs? Better chance that they'd try to help people.

drmoose ,

It's mostly nerds who had the spine to migrate from Reddit rather than continueing to feed this machine that clearly brings no good for anyone.

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.

sunbrrnslapper ,
@sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world avatar

Here representing the suburban moms.

Threadsdeadbaby ,

Fellow mom, working class.

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