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.
In my 40s, do software development for a living.
Same
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.
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
relatable haha
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.
41, software dev, kids, marriage, punk/metal/hiphop, center to left politically, video games, Halloween enthusiast, scale RC trucks, Rams fan, love nerdy things, comics, ninja turtles, X-Men, Legos, theme parks, a good poop.
Libs
I’m here for shitposting, anime titties, and saying disproportionately cruel things about rich people.
anime titties
Ah, a world politics enjoyer.
No. The I dissociated with reality kind.
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.
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I’m here!
Yeah you are!
now what 0.0
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.
You’ll find a lot of FOSS developers on here. This is a general community and all that, but there is a large Linux and open source software interest here. Some people simply don’t understand things like the scope of FOSS software in terms of both users and developers, so that can create some tension at times. There are a lot of experts and radical thinkers in this space. You may or may not find help on super niche questions, but say something wrong or poorly, and you’re likely to find the experts soon thereafter. For instance, I am confident enough to ask advanced course computer science questions and get useful answers here. I find this place useful for second sourcing info from AI that I find plausible but sketchy. Like I got into fermentation but have no interest in the whole commercialized nonsense hobby junk. Almost all sources are poisoned by commercial interests and misguided nonsense. Just asking here gets lots of people with practical knowledge on fundamental techniques from long before it was some commercialized hobby.
The group behind the fediverse is very diverse and that diversity is reflected in the user space here in Lemmy.
It’s mostly nerds who had the spine to migrate from Reddit rather than continueing to feed this machine that clearly brings no good for anyone.
in my experience, Lemmy is 33.33% owls
what’s this mean?
I’m here because I got permabanned on Reddit haha. Chuds mass reported me multiple times and Reddit got sick of it, I guess. Probably for the best, the website is a true shithole nowadays and absolutely overrun with literal children.
I was planning to leave with the mass-migration a year ago anyway, but Reddit conveniently suspended my account for “mod abuse” because the snowflake r/conservative mods were butthurt that I was reporting the misinformation they were trying to spread.
(In other words, it proved to me that Reddit is run by fascists.)
Female, old, non-techie but in the one fourth of people in my office who can set up a printer.
One of us! One of us! One of us!
I’m a 30 foot tall lumberjack from Antarctica
