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Lemmy skews old. For some of us, those are foundational events in our childhood.
(Kinda joking/kinda serious)
Lemmy skews a lot of ways, but I have a hard time imagining a sizable number of older users being here.
For example, if you said the stereotypical Lemmy user is a Linux Loving Left Wing Trans Environmentalist Programmer, then I think you'd be hitting the nail on the head, at least in terms of the other user interactions I have observed across Lemmy. But I dont believe that the types of people who fit into those categories are largely older, it makes more sense for them to be largely younger.
I think it more comes down to those events being new or known enough that people know a bit about them but old enough that jokes/conspiracy theories or whatever would not be considered so offensive as if they had happened very recently. Also, its the age of the Netflix Documentary, and those topics are popular among Netflix Documentary makers.
in the communities i hang in here there a a good few that must be in their 50s (and i'm one of them).
just look at the number of posts in the *nix and self hosting communities for comments about pre and early linus users, or selfhosting email back in the day , or bsd/unix usage
Oh absolutely, I am not saying that nobody that uses Lemmy is over the age of 30 or something. Just that the large supermajority are likely not to be older, in my observation.
Older than what? Here are self reported stats from lemmy.ca:
Interesting, but a sample size of 8% (531/6500ish) from a Canadian focused Lemmy instance that is so small isn't what I would consider a good sample size of Lemmy as a whole.
I would consider someone "older" if they're over 50.
Did you block the Star Trek communities? Serious question, just because you hit all the other big lemmy things.
I’m not a super fan, but I fuck with the next generation, but I don’t know many people younger than me (early thirties) who are into it (or were before the last couple of years of new series). That alone skews the age demographic for my head canon, but I don’t know if it’s especially based in reality.
No, I haven't blocked any Star Trek specific communities (unless they are on the .ml, .grad, or hexbear instances). I only have seen the TenForward community in any regularity. But I do realize a sizable amount of Lemmy users are also Trekkies. Its just that the other demographics are larger, so I left Trek out.
Young people are into Star Trek, but usually only because their parents were cool enough to introduce them to it.