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[–] [email protected] 11 points 45 minutes ago

0-100 I believe

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There's at least one 57 year old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 26 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

i think we should poll in it

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yep, 37 here.
I found Digg just before the Exodus and hung around Reddit for a decade or so then split during the Reddit blackout.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

39 here, exact same backstory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Wow. Same for me. Digg just before the implosion, then reddit for 10ish years then here. 52.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

Don’t forget /.

I stayed around that one for way, way too long.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Did you have to peg me that hard before we've even met

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

It's my usual ice breaker.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Based on this poll with 599 participants from the german [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Also see stats from:

Which are pretty similar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, prolly shifts older by 1 or 2 demographics, is my guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

I would estimate

15% <25

60% 25-40

25% 40+

Y'all be showing your age sometimes 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

I'd agree with your breakdown. I'm early 40s and I feel like most people here are give or take 10 years of me

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

Get off my lawn

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm old as fuck. I definitely show my age as often as possible.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I showed my age in public and now I'm on a list... I keep getting AARP mailers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

The aarps mailers are great once this FEMA camps get going

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Awww man, I'm 2 years away from a bracket change.... My knees hurt more now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Hi 19 I'm dad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not an expert but I believe it's because they were born 19 years ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Oh. Looks like I got whoooshed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It's ok. It is, in my opinion, one of the lamest memes on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

My steam account is nearly 20, lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Had the same email address for 27 years...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Solid, and still your main? My Hotmail would be similar age, but it's hardly used these days

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

I'm 18 if that's any help 🙃

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure, I'm mid thirties though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

This few years are the largest single age years in us population. I think 34 is peak. In US at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago