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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I'm a 19-year-old female corvid that migrated to North Africa for better mate selection. I still managed to get a social security number in the US by showing up to the government offices piled on top of other crows in a trench coat and it is "315 34 5262". My bank account is filled with thousands of dollars in change stolen from people and can be accessed with the username "blackwings" and the password "neverdie111". Please don't use this information for any nefarious purposes. I need to feed my crow family.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Beep/boop/bap

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah. I'm an 18-year-old male from Pakistan

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Too old to understand why you’re asking about American Sign Language

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

18/F/Cali

How has nobody memed this yet? You guys seem waaay too comfortable sharing personal information for the fact that this is the website of linux nerds, don't you care about online privacy?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

420/Yes please/Your mother's bedroom

(I understand the curiosity, but come on now)

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

"Nice try... FBI"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

80's, female, born in the US and now (thankfully) an AU citizen.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Omg this is getting silly. Asklemmy really is just a user profiling feed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Lemmings of Lemmy: What's your blood type and eyeglass prescription?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Ha I thought for a second your age was in the 90's, but then I considered it more likely that you were born in the 1990's, right?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

16 / M / Ireland

I always feel like a small child in the lemmy user base haha

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

13 here, I feel like a baby in the Lemmy userbase

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

They're a lot younger than me too... but I was on the Internet, including in some mostly-adult communities, at 16 too (not so much at 13). Many of my formative experiences took place there and so I see absolutely nothing wrong with what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Sad / trans girl / looking for laugh-out-louds

Anonymous polling would be nice

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

38 / M / Canada/Spain

So I am a male, born in the eighties, split about 75/25 NA/EU.

Do I fit the demographic? You misunderstand...

I AM the demographic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

No this is Patrick

[–] python 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

25 / F / Germany

I feel like there's a really good amount of Europeans around, but I might just imagine that because I browse new at the times when Europeans would be awake haha

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I am surprised that this post received so many genuine answers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90 year olds are NOT welcome!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

99/zyxw/ABC

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Put in the legwork to find me Mr alphabet soup man. I know you can do it, you're just being lazy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

No, no, and yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Early 90s, male, North America

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