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who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy) (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There’s lots of LGBTQ+ and FOSS (I wonder why lol).

the lemmyverse was created by tankies as a leftists social media platform; it moved to center right and octupled in users when reddit went full corporate.

there's a lot of overlap between lgbtq and left leaning views as well as left leaning views and foss enthusiasts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Lemmy is foss which is the only reason I'm here. I assume it being one of the only foss social media platforms is what draws a lot of other foss enthusiasts here too.