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[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure about the age demographics to be honest, I would think the average person on Lemmy is closer to 30-40 than teenager or 20

[โ€“] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Oof. There goes that theory then lol. And yeah, I did originally get the impression based on my first couple of proper interactions here that it was an older crowd. Although honestly, it's extremely hard to tell over text based communication. I think that often on these anonymous platforms, users just sort of assume that the person they're speaking to is in a similar demographic to them. Because you can't really detect age through a sentence or paragraph unless the person specifically brings up MS-DOS days or something. Our brains do a lot of filling in the gaps for us and that isn't always reliable.

I'd actually be interested to see some sort of census or poll here that can reveal these things. Although I half expect that a lot of users here would be like "Don't do the poll! They're trying to track you and harvest your data for evil! - sent from my iPhone".