Short summary (what we know from the 2023 census). Feel free to add an additional observations:
Total responses: 531 (about 8% of ~6,500 registered users at the time)
Age: the distribution peaks in the 30–39 bracket (author: “average age … a bit older than other social platforms”).
Gender: strong male skew — 441 identify as “Man”, 32 as “Woman”, 25 as “Non-binary” (plus a few others)
Location: ~87% of respondents are from Canada
Education & employment: high education levels (e.g., 223 reported a Bachelor’s, 55 Master’s, 19 PhD) and ~70.8% employed full-time.
So your typical answer is coming from a fairly well educated mid 30’s Canadian guy. Huh.


So pretty much useless today
Has it changed much?
Yes, Lemmy has grown significantly in the past two years. Hexbear has also become federated with other Lemmy instances since, which alone would completely change the demographics.
Considering Lemmy.ca has over 11k registered users and Lemmy as a whole over 40k active monthly users - yes.
Yeah that’s when I joined . The front page was 99% star trek memes. Now it’s down to like, 70%