in my experience, Lemmy is 33.33% owls

We are Reddit before it became… Reddit.

There’s lots of LGBTQ+ and FOSS (I wonder why lol). Star Trek and science are also becoming rather common (or it just took me a while to find the right communities). I also get the feeling that the age bracket is larger than on other platforms and people seem to be nicer too (at least compared to the month or so I spent looking through Reddit before finding Lemmy).

Following is more about the kinds of post than users. (I don’t want to waste your time if that’s not what you meant by “common things people see”) There’s also some videogame and pornography communities (I’m sure there’s combinations too) so I do set my client to blur nsfw images and I block video game communities for games I don’t play/don’t want spoilers from.

Lots of webcomics also seem to be (automatically?) uploaded to their respective communities.

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I’m a 22 year old software engineering student from Denmark. I used reddit a little before Lemmy but haven’t been there since.

I’m here!

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.

I’m a southmerican engineering student, 19.

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.

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.

Would be cool to do a census.

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.

Reddit without the NPCs

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.

People that miss forums