To me, it seems like most of Lemmy consists of users who are older millennials (born at some point in the 80s), male, and about 50/50 split between living in North America or the EU.

Do you fit this demographic?

  • WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    Nope. I am reluctant in sharing the info. But i am not from 80s and i am neither from north america nor from eu .

    I am a male though.

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    I’m wondering what exactly people raising privacy concerns are worried about?

    Even if I tell you my ASL, what can you do with that info?

    I’m usually very privacy aware.

    The big tech firms already have the information, it can also likely be brought on the dark web.

    44/M/NZ BTW. Even if I tell you which small town I’m from, it doesn’t get you to my doorstep.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    Thank you but I was born in the 70s. Did you want to see a picture of the burnt orange shag rug in my childhood bedroom?

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml
    2·
    7 days ago

    Most maybe, but every other demographic is just valid a contributer to the conversation

  • Eiri@lemmy.ca
    1·
    6 days ago

    I’m a woman and I was born in the 1990s. I do live in North America though.

  • fjordbasa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    8 days ago

    I feel like an anonymous survey would be much more privacy respecting than everyone commenting with their demographics…

    • fool@programming.dev
      51·
      8 days ago

      We have the Venn overlap of people who want privacy and people who dislike enshittification. Then some join Lemmy.

      ⇒Nonresponse bias by people who scroll by and don’t care to read other people’s info or post their own. Huge sieve, these comments aren’t even seen.

      Then we have curious people who are probably curious about tech or tinkering or protecting themselves or more organic forums like Lemmy.

      ⇒Nonresponse bias by people who check this out by curiosity (e.g. comment/upvote ratio, are people really giving out their info or faking it with jokes?) but then they definitely choose to not comment. They et al. might upvote the above comment or not, and nope out.

      We can’t even get good Linux user demographics. A large survey sometime back said “Wayland was leading over Xorg, according to users who replied” – obviously false, take a look at Indian corporate use of Ubuntu Desktop LTS, or the legacyness of X11.

      Blah blah, 2.5/mitosis/deep sea geysers

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    8 days ago

    Be careful giving away personal information on Lemmy. It’s wildly difficult to ensure stuff is deleted or removed in the Fediverse across multiple servers.