What do you think the age demographic on Lemmy is?

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.

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.

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

I would estimate

15% <25

60% 25-40

25% 40+

Y'all be showing your age sometimes 😅

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

There's at least one 57 year old.

0-100 I believe

My steam account is nearly 20, lol

85% neckbeards

I think mostly 30s and 40s based on the memes

I'm 19!

Seems like a young crowd to me based on the often naive and idealistic post replies. OTOH, I'm very often surprised that so many seem my age (50s).

I'm 18 if that's any help 🙃

I have no idea but I imagine most should be younger than I am (50+)

As a serious answer, I’d guess Lemmy skews younger. Too many idealists here to think the average user base has the wisdom that comes from experience.

Sorry, younglings. You’ll know when you get older: the long view clearly demonstrates optimism is a lie. History is a corkscrew. Progress is made, but only through endless repetitions of past mistakes.

younger than on Mastodon (where it’s overwhelmingly 40+)

Younger than 30yo the technical knowledge declines rapidly, so it's very unlikely for them to be here.

18 - 30

Around 9 years old. Could be some 11 year olds in there.

Reassessing after this week's events, most of the users I would have previously guessed were high school sophomores are probably adult Americans.

Most user are in age b/w 30-50 I guess. I am 17 btw.

I have a 5 digit slashdot id.

~13-50

Not sure, I'm mid thirties though

i think we should poll in it

I think it varies greatly. The trans communities, for instance, seem to tread younger and I get the sense that many posters are teenagers. Tech communities, on the other hand, seem 30s-40s.

74-89

25-35

Hopefully older and more mature than Reddit users.

I mean an average teen aint gonna find Lemmy or even like using Fediverse stuff, they mostly stick to mainstream social media. Sign up applications probably further weeds them out. Yay no pesky kids.

(I don't hate younger people, I just find that many of them tend to be immature and use the anonymity of the internet to post edgy opinions like racism)