120 points

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.

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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.

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21 points

Don’t forget /.

I stayed around that one for way, way too long.

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11 points

39 here, exact same backstory.

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8 points

Wow. Same for me. Digg just before the implosion, then reddit for 10ish years then here. 52.

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3 points

Similar age here.

Not into social media and Reddit now sucks.

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2 points

I’m 27, and came here after the reddit blackout. Digg was before my time on the Internet. What was it like?

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20 points

Did you have to peg me that hard before we’ve even met

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10 points

It’s my usual ice breaker.

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5 points

That’s a great point, we’ve been around the block so we’re less receptive to enshittification bullshit

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70 points

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.

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Also see stats from:

Which are pretty similar.

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5 points

Yeah, prolly shifts older by 1 or 2 demographics, is my guess.

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Two 13-15 year old users

Does Lemmy even have a minimum age or TOS?

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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.

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2 points

Yea, Like lemm.ee have 16 years.

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54 points

There have been several polls. We’re older and more female than you think.

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35 points

How female are you?

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35 points

I’ve been feeling more female ever since I got here, but maybe there’s no correlation

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8 points

-75%

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Hey, Imaginary Percentages, cool!

i%

To generate Complex Demographic on a Cartesian plane.

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FEEEEMALE.

uh huh. That’s absolutely how women refer to themselves.

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6 points

In that context it makes sense though, it’s being used as an adjective, as is “older”.

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1 point

We’re not studying the breeding cycle of bats.

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I would estimate

15% <25

60% 25-40

25% 40+

Y’all be showing your age sometimes 😅

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I’m old as fuck. I definitely show my age as often as possible.

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20 points

I showed my age in public and now I’m on a list… I keep getting AARP mailers.

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19 points

Get off my lawn

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6 points

Our lawn!

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10 points

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

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6 points

Awww man, I’m 2 years away from a bracket change… My knees hurt more now.

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39 points

I’m 30, so naturally I assume everyone else is too

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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. 🤷

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I’m 31. From what I’ve seen, a large portion are around this age. I think there’s very few young people.

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8 points

I think of 31 as pretty young.

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Fair. I guess children would be a better word, although I also think it’s low on 18-25 at least too.

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4 points

not completely correct! 19

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3 points

Pretty sure everyone in the world is either 30, 60 or a child.

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2 points

31, assume the same

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