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.
I am probably blowing the statistics way out, but I’m 71, a podcaster on three shows, no degree, no computer experience except personal, poor, living in a trailer, in Eastern Tennessee.
Podcast links? Please and thank you. Sounds interesting.
https://mintCast.org https://distrohoppersdigest.com https://fullcirclemagazine.org
And you might catch me on https://hackerpublicradio.org
Thanks so much for the update!
That’s the perspective I need. Clicked follow.
i think ive seen a few in your age bracket. there seems to be a good amount that must be around the 50+ mark
You still didn’t answer the most important question of Lemmy, though. (joke)
Do you use GNU+Linux?
sometimes it is a good reference point though
Bruh
Love it! Glad to have you here!
You sound kind of amazing.
sounds like many would love to see your podcast! myself included
Well it’s kind of hard to see an audio podcast. Although mintcast does broadcast its uncut show on YouTube, my others are audio only.
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Just about any podcatcher…
The median age seems to be much higher than other platforms if i had to guess its around 30-35. There are a good deal of tech people, Foss people and activists. There seems to be a balance of gender( based on nothing but vibes). Lots of lgbt people and communities.
There is a culture of creating art, technology and building spaces. There is a culture of inclusiveness and working together. Calling out bad behaviors in people, companies and governments.
Also cats and coffee.
I am only including the lemmy that is within my own federation. I am aware there is fringe communities of extremists and vile people but I’ve had very little interaction with them so I can’t say how much of an impact they have on lemmy as a whole.
What’s a foss?
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You’re thinking of “floss”.
Foss is loose debris on an airfield or flight deck that can get sucked into an engine or blown into something important.
You’re thinking of “floose”.
FOSS is an acronym for, “fellatio of sideways sucking”. Popular since 1954 and even made reference to by Jim Carrey in the Academy Award winning motion picture, Dumb and Dumber.
The one they named the dance after?
Free Open Source Software
Free open source software
For example: you want more choice than store named brand Downloader you get the F-DROID app which allows you to look at free and open software apps developed independently
Another example is instead of Spotify you download Spotube to listen to music.
Ahem.
Also cats, coffee, and trek.
There is definitely a federation.
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.
Accurate
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I fit many of those bills :)
People that miss forums
That’s me.
Yo!
Still mainly use them!
Here representing the suburban moms.
Fellow mom, working class.
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The instance of choice has a surprisingly large impact on experience here. I’ve tried several.
huh thats interesting I guess that makes enough sense since you have your subscribed section, your home server section, and then the everything section. so you are seeing more of what you choose to see unless you explore things that aren’t your interests so much or check out the everything section a lot.
Think of it as the cool/bad kids’ table in the special-needs school cafeteria
lmao
More language diverse than Reddit, especially on language based instances. Shout out to the Germans who seem much more active than other languages (such as French or Spanish)
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.
I’m here to have a experience similar to reddit, without the negative load on my mental health.
Do you feel like that’s been accomplished here?
Less content than I used to follow on reddit, but much less toxic. So, partially.
I havent used Lemmy much and only made a reddit account like a year ago after reading reddit posts for many years on and off but I alresy feel like this is the case on Lemmy.
That’s a good question. From what I gather, Lemmy (and most of the Fediverse) is an alternative to something, with less focus on the money/advertising. So I would guess most people are looking for an alternative way to connect about common interests. And because it’s not the easiest path for social media, I would guess most people have a desire for agency/self-reliance.
And because the whole Fediverse seems to be a different way of approaching social connecting, it takes a little more understanding of computer technology, so I would also guess most people have a least a higher than average affinity for computer technology. Linux and Programming Humor are larger communities.
That said, I have enjoyed a somewhat active participation about woodworking, gardening, jokes, news, medical updates, etc. Like mentioned in another comment, the different instances will have somewhat different norms and practices.
There’d better not be any ads.
Lemmy is free and open source (AGPL), the ad money would only go to the person offering your client not the people hosting your instance. If your client has any ads I’d recommend switching. I use Jerboa (Android, play store) and the official web app hosted by my instance.
I’m pretty new to fediverse stuff and hadn’t use many clients but I heard about boost for reddit as I was trying out Lemmy the first time and found out there is boost for Lemmy too, it has ads but I think there is also a pay version? I may be wrong about that though. so far boost has been nice
voyager is the way
thanks for the recommendation, gonna give it a spin
We are Reddit before it became… Reddit.
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!
Nice try Mr. FBI
(It’s a Terry Davis quote. For those that don’t know who he is – you should check him out, it’s a pretty wild rabbit hole.)
I accidentally read an extremely dry Wikipedia page about a British politician until I realized that you meant the TempleOS guy. I agree, very interesting guy. Too many Terry Davises!
Terry A. Davis, my bad to everyone reading about a boring Terry because of me.
Done
I was hoping to one day see someone make a comment like this lmao
Different per instance, but generally, it feels to me like the conscience and reason from Reddit left the body on that day and moved in here at Lemmy. It hasn’t gone back since.
