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.
That’s actually a lower education level than than for all Canadians, IIRC. Which is interesting, since the vibe definitely is that everyone here is in STEM.
And yes, the author definitely surveyed their own instance and not all of Lemmy.