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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I'm not into programming, and I'm an LGBTQIA Ally. Just genuinely curious. Are 90% of Linux users really young white femboys with anime body pillows? Or is Lemmy just a heavily skewed demographic?

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It’s mostly just a stereotype. I know plenty of young white femboys who use Windows, and I’m a Linux user who is young and white but definitely not a femboy. I would say 90% of Linux users probably know how to program though.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Or at least are very friendly with the terminal and know all sorts of scripting languages... which is not that far from programming either.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    I think only 60% linux users know how to program

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

    Not so young anymore (πŸ₯²), not a femboy and no body pillows here. Been using Linux for almost 20 years now. More than 10 exclusivly Linux.

    The young, single, femboys just has more time to creat more memes.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

    It's just Lemmy!

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

    Dual booters are fem-boys with anime body pillows.

    Those brave enough to take the full plunge and single boot Linux are fem-men with anime body pillows.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    No... The true Linux users are white, mid-40 men who only use Arch Linux on an old Thinkpad and who will comment "I use Arch BTW" under a video with a random dog eating a ball just to prove that the dog should use Arch as well, because it is objectively better than anything else.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Yeah, that's what I said. Fem-men with anime body pillows.

    I use Arch BTW

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    You just made my day better, I had to laugh. Thank you ;)

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

    these comments always remind me how small the amount of my peers here probably is. i wonder how many other lemmy users have cooked crack

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    ✌️... not proud of it though... and it was heroin, not crack.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    To extend your statistical research I'm a GNU/LINUX. user, i have never watched an anime, I'm white, extremely racist and a lgbtqia hater.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

    I hate that I had to check your history to see if you were joking

    ^judging^ ^by^ ^lots^ ^of^ ^comments^ ^in^ ^[email protected]^ ^I'm^ ^going^ ^yes^

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Heavily skewed demographic IMO. LGBTQ+ supportive liberals is what makes most of it, but I would bet that there are republican IT workers out there (or rightists, in general, if not from the US) or users that maybe like most of what the right has to offer, just don't agree with everything all the way, like let's say libre software.

    And I stole the meme, I wouldn't have used that image for the meme, I'm in no way into anime πŸ˜‚. Sure, Akira and legendary stuff like that, but that's just a really good movie TBH, it doesn't matter if it's anime or not.

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

    My impression of linuxmemes (what's the lemmy word for subreddit?) is mostly that it feels like the regular posters don't use Linux. Either that, or it is automated and reposting stuff from 10-20 years ago that isn't very accurate or relevant.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    We call the comms, short for communities πŸ˜‰.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    No, but I find it funny, so I am willing to propagate that myth. We are also all furries, you forgot that part.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    LGBT people are over-represented in IT, as it is less judgemental of such things compared to many other professions. Also, people who had to hide their identity, or question it, or read more about such hard to access topics, probably learned how to use the internet, and may have even developed an interest in fields like privacy and digital equality.

    As for anime, Japan (and China, Korea etc.) are major electronics manufacturers and designers, so their culture has influenced the internet, and particularly the more nerdy parts of it.

    But there are plenty of people with very different political views in the Linux community, from RMS's infocommunism to Eric Raymond's right-libertarianism.