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.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

A piece of tasteless Moroccan filth who despises his country so much and spends time finding as many interesting communities to fit into and discuss about as possible to escape the horrors known as reality.

alfenstein ,

I'm a 22 year old software engineering student from Denmark. I used reddit a little before Lemmy but haven't been there since.

boogetyboo ,

Late 30s woman in Australia. Work in tech adjacent field.
Progressive leftie.

Used Reddit for news, memes and funnies. Here for the same. Sometimes get involved in discussion but more often than not get too angry and have to put the phone down. Feel like you can have better discussions here than the old place, but I've noticed an uptick in right wing nut jobs and incels.

Absence of low effort 'this' and copypastas style responses is great. But I'm seeing a bit of that coming over too.

10_0 ,

Politics in !memes (even over non-political topics). Plenty of engagement in the comments. People want to argue like they're on twitter. Friendly comment sections on non-political posts (if it stays that way). Insert something to do with communism/the west here. Cross-instance posting provides variety. Active mods prevent abuse of the rules. High quality memes. High quality posts. High quality comment sections. The app you use dictates how good your interaction with the website is. (I recommend Voyager, my daily driver.)
Lemmy's been better since the reddit exodus a few years ago. You could wait 2-3 days before new content hit your home page back in the day.
Sub to communities you're interested in so its easier when you come back.

whotookkarl ,
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world avatar

I'm a 30 foot tall lumberjack from Antarctica

gusgalarnyk ,

Just chiming in, I'm 28, American, immigrated to Germany. Can't speak for Lemmy but I migrated from reddit when they shut the APIs down. Just want a shelf stable Aggregate site where I can stay up to date on my favorite hobbies and periodically connect with other humans. A healthy political debate is good every now and then but I'm also in the camp that the answers for our current problems are well researched and pretty fuckin obvious so debates have gotten... Idk stale.

Generally Lemmy feels like reddit but smaller, less polluted, but also less connected with every niche major update.

boogetyboo ,

Thank you for summarising how I feel about the debates.

I sometimes go to respond to the more extreme takes and then think, haven't I said this before? And wouldn't they already know this?

The ability to counter misinformation is so diminished now. Everyone can just stand on either side holding up signs that summarise their views and leave it at that.

Iceblade02 ,

Engineering student in Sweden.

FeelThePower ,

Gen Z weeb from FL living in CA for a couple years now, almost went the IT route and finished trade school but ended up just working a part time service job to have more free time at the cost of being poorer lol

confuser OP ,
@confuser@lemmy.zip avatar

relatable haha

yogthos ,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

In my 40s, do software development for a living.

grrgyle ,
@grrgyle@slrpnk.net avatar

Same

yogthos ,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

I'm imagine people in tech are inherently over-represented on niche social platforms. Although, I do find that lemmy tends to have a political aspect to it as well that makes it attractive to people who might not care about stuff like open source.

chikaygo ,

I am early 40s in the accounting industry. Married, no kids, don’t want em. Have cats. Live in the Midwest, a lefty, woman, vegetarian that hates labels (heh heh).

Came to lemmy shortly before the Reddit API fuckaroo after seeing all the posts about the fediverse. Given that I had dropped all social media except Reddit in the prior 2 years due to a combo of crazy people, algorithms and targeted advertising, I was primed for fleeing. I’m tech savvy but not a tech nerd. Open source, Linux, self-hosting, etc all interest me but without having a direct background in tech, I find it difficult to prioritize learning more about it all.

If I wasn’t so entranced by other people’s thoughts and opinions in text form (never generally been a fan of videos/photos as an information medium), I would have cut all ties. This space can honestly be a little too “damn the man” for me, as I like rules and order, but I also feel the frustration of the public and tend to feel somewhat impotent about it. Hence, I think this is about the best fit I’ll find to still be able to connect with the thoughts of people I don’t know and experiences I don’t have.

VanHalbgott ,

I’m not like other people on here, but here I am.

captainlezbian ,

About a month or so ago I was at a gay bar and saw a guy wearing a Debian tshirt. Him. Lemmy is people like that

dan , (edited )
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I'm an Aussie in my early-mid 30s. I've been living in the USA for the past 11 years. I've been a software developer, mostly focusing on web development, since the late 90s personally and since the mid 2000s professionally. I was an early Digg user, moved to Reddit during the Digg exodus, then moved to Lemmy during the Reddit exodus.

I believe that people on the internet should own their platform, for example run their own blog or e-commerce site, participate in decentralized services like Lemmy, etc. Opera Unite was something I found very interesting in terms of allowing people to easily run their own decentralized stuff, and I'm kinda sad it never took off. I self-host things like email and DNS.

I'm a big believer in open-source software and released my first piece of OSS in 2005.

I love listening to people that are passionate about something and get excited when talking about it. Doesn't really matter what it is or if it's a topic I'm interested in.

eldavi , (edited )

I’m an Aussie in my early-mid 30s. I’ve been living in the USA for the past 11 years. I’ve been a software developer, mostly focusing on web development, since the late 90s personally and since the mid 2000s professionally.

so your birth year would be somewhere between 1987 to 1993; you started professional web development when you were 14 to 20 years old? you moved to the us somewhere between 20 and 26 years old?

i didn't even start dating until i was 27 and my career at 26 while my first website was at 16 years old and i never truly left the country; you're either very impressive or lucky af! i envy you! ;)

dan ,
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Right in the middle of that range (1990). I started learning about computers when I was around 8 years old. My mum bought an old 486 second-hand, and I spent most of my free time using it. We didn't have a lot of money, and the computer was a great way to entertain myself without needing to spend anything. I had a bunch of shareware/freeware games, but something that really interested me was the Visual Basic system built in to Microsoft Office. In Excel, I'd record macros then look at the code to see how they worked.

Eventually, I did some web development work when I was at school. I built quizzes for some teachers - back when Internet Explorer was used by practically every one, and code was often in VBScript rather than JavaScript. I learnt web development by looking at the source code of the sites I used - that's not really possible these days due to how large and minified/obfuscated CSS and JS files are now.

I've got a copy of one of my sites from 2003: http://www.dansoftaustralia.net/oldest/. Unfortunately a lot of the images are broken. I need to find a copy of them... Maybe in the internet archive.

I went to university from 2008-2011, with a one year work placement (like an internship) in the third year. After I graduated, I started working again at the same company. In 2013, a recruiter from a tech company in Silicon Valley reached out to me over LinkedIn and asked if I'd be interested in applying. I didn't think I'd get through the interview process, but I did, and moved to the USA. 11 years later, I'm still working at the same company.

I'm sure there's things you've done that I haven't done. You should focus on things you've accomplished rather than things you envy about other people :)

bi_tux ,
@bi_tux@lemmy.world avatar

I'm an it student from central europe

Mycatiskai ,

I'm an early 40s guy who moved north to get away from the city and live a more relaxed life in a small town.
I'm liking it so far except the country music that my new job has on the radio but I'm doing more physical work again which is better for my health than sitting on my ass all day as a manager at my last job.

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