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.
- bardmoss ( @bardmoss@linux.community ) English59•8 months ago
I am probably blowing the statistics way out, but I’m 71, a podcaster on three shows, no degree, no computer experience except personal, poor, living in a trailer, in Eastern Tennessee.
- Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English15•8 months ago
Podcast links? Please and thank you. Sounds interesting.
- bardmoss ( @bardmoss@linux.community ) English4•7 months ago
https://mintCast.org https://distrohoppersdigest.com https://fullcirclemagazine.org
And you might catch me on https://hackerpublicradio.org
- Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•7 months ago
Thanks so much for the update!
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 10•8 months ago
That’s the perspective I need. Clicked follow.
- BlueÆther ( @BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ) 7•8 months ago
i think ive seen a few in your age bracket. there seems to be a good amount that must be around the 50+ mark
- Track_Shovel ( @Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ) English6•8 months ago
Bruh
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English6•8 months ago
You still didn’t answer the most important question of Lemmy, though. (joke)
Do you use GNU+Linux?
- BlueÆther ( @BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ) 4•8 months ago
sometimes it is a good reference point though
- LanternEverywhere ( @LanternEverywhere@kbin.social ) 3•8 months ago
Love it! Glad to have you here!
sounds like many would love to see your podcast! myself included
- bardmoss ( @bardmoss@linux.community ) English1•7 months ago
Well it’s kind of hard to see an audio podcast. Although mintcast does broadcast its uncut show on YouTube, my others are audio only.
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 48•8 months ago
The median age seems to be much higher than other platforms if i had to guess its around 30-35. There are a good deal of tech people, Foss people and activists. There seems to be a balance of gender( based on nothing but vibes). Lots of lgbt people and communities.
There is a culture of creating art, technology and building spaces. There is a culture of inclusiveness and working together. Calling out bad behaviors in people, companies and governments.
Also cats and coffee.
I am only including the lemmy that is within my own federation. I am aware there is fringe communities of extremists and vile people but I’ve had very little interaction with them so I can’t say how much of an impact they have on lemmy as a whole.
- Track_Shovel ( @Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ) English10•8 months ago
What’s a foss?
- Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English13•8 months ago
Free Open Source Software
- LanternEverywhere ( @LanternEverywhere@kbin.social ) 6•8 months ago
Free open source software
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 2•8 months ago
For example: you want more choice than store named brand Downloader you get the F-DROID app which allows you to look at free and open software apps developed independently
Another example is instead of Spotify you download Spotube to listen to music.
- fmstrat ( @fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ) 5•8 months ago
Ahem.
Also cats, coffee, and trek.
There is definitely a federation.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 42•8 months ago
As a late gen x/“xennial” myself I’ve noticed there’s proportionally more of us here than on other social media.
Tends to be left of centre even without factoring in the communistanarchistsocialist nexus, but also wider political range.
Tends to skew STEM.
Loves cats as much as the rest of the internet but proportionally loves FOSS more.
Strong rainbow presence.
- ulkesh ( @ulkesh@beehaw.org ) English2•7 months ago
I fit many of those bills :)
- AlexWIWA ( @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ) English40•8 months ago
People that miss forums
- ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 ( @Emperor@feddit.uk ) English14•8 months ago
That’s me.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 5•8 months ago
Yo!
- ilovecheese ( @ilovecheese@feddit.uk ) 4•8 months ago
Still mainly use them!
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 23•8 months ago
Think of it as the cool/bad kids’ table in the special-needs school cafeteria
- ouRKaoS ( @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ) 6•7 months ago
lmao
- Sabata11792 ( @Sabata11792@kbin.social ) 20•8 months ago
I’m here for shitposting, anime titties, and saying disproportionately cruel things about rich people.
- loopy ( @loopy@lemm.ee ) 19•8 months ago
That’s a good question. From what I gather, Lemmy (and most of the Fediverse) is an alternative to something, with less focus on the money/advertising. So I would guess most people are looking for an alternative way to connect about common interests. And because it’s not the easiest path for social media, I would guess most people have a desire for agency/self-reliance.
And because the whole Fediverse seems to be a different way of approaching social connecting, it takes a little more understanding of computer technology, so I would also guess most people have a least a higher than average affinity for computer technology. Linux and Programming Humor are larger communities.
That said, I have enjoyed a somewhat active participation about woodworking, gardening, jokes, news, medical updates, etc. Like mentioned in another comment, the different instances will have somewhat different norms and practices.
- QuantumEyetanglement ( @QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id ) English19•8 months ago
Nice try Mr. FBI
I was hoping to one day see someone make a comment like this lmao
- Blaze ( @Blaze@reddthat.com ) 19•8 months ago
More language diverse than Reddit, especially on language based instances. Shout out to the Germans who seem much more active than other languages (such as French or Spanish)
- fmstrat ( @fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ) 18•8 months ago
We are Reddit before it became… Reddit.
- Jo Miran ( @JoMiran@lemmy.ml ) 13•8 months ago
I’m 51 and have been neck deep in tech since I can remember. On Linux since RedHat Halloween. The fediverse reminds me of the early days of the internet when it was all Usenet, IRC, GeoCities, etc.
I’m sometimes a little jelly about those that got to experience that era of the internet. I was born right on 2k and I still grew up feeling a little bit of that very briefly as a kid but not to any major degree.
- MeThisGuy ( @MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ) 1•7 months ago
I miss the days of AIM, ICQ, mIRC, Napster, kazoo, burning CDs at 2x, mp3 cd players
now it seems like everything is an app
- gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English13•8 months ago
Since lemmy is decentralized, the demographics are going to vary greatly depending on the instance. You’d have to create a pretty generalized poll and then post to most of the major instances to get anything close to even a general read.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 2•8 months ago
This is true.
at first I wasnt picturing how that would work exactly but then I realized you are a bit locked down into your own communities a bit unless you intentionally explore other areas or mainly look at the everything section
- gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English1•7 months ago
Not so much. One has the freedom to explore and subscribe and participate in communities across the lemmyverse (mostly) regardless of what one’s home instance is.
However, one’s home instance often has quite the influence on one’s… perspective and one’s exposure— even one’s intended exposure.
For example, one will probably have a notably different experience if one starts from Lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml (or even lemmygrad.ml) vs lemm.ee. Or, especially Beehaw.org. And that experience may color how one views how one experiences external communities.
My point is that it’s mor complex and nuanced than you’re giving it credit for.
interesting
- BlueÆther ( @BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ) 12•8 months ago
well for me:
- just passed 50 last month
- been kicking around ‘PCs’ since the vic-20
- buun using linux since Mandrake Helios (6.1)
- have self hosted all sorts (including email for nearly 10 yrs, not any more other than a relay for my lemmy)
- had a mastodon instance for about 2-3 years - but use mastodon.nz
- spun up my instance of lemmy just as the exodus started
- been into tinkering with electronics from childhood
I guess that puts me in the the tech group that seems very common here
other groups that seem well represented are the ‘left’ and lgbqt+
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 9•7 months ago
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.
- eezeebee ( @eezeebee@lemmy.ca ) English9•8 months ago
Reddit without the NPCs