I can’t say I’ve been using Lemmy for long, but from the get-go it seems that the communities, memes, opinions that get upvoted seem to reflect left-wing ideas.

I’m certainly not complaining, it honestly feels like a breathe of fresh air compared to other social media sites that seem to shift further and further to the far right, though I am curious to hear why this might be the case? Does FOSS tend to attract more left-wing minded people, or does this just happen to be a broadly left-wing microcosm/bubble?

Hope you all have a great day.

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    5 months ago

    Lemmy users seem older than most social media to me. Why is Star Trek TNG so popular here if not?

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      5 months ago

      My guess is the fat part of the bell curve is 25-40 here, probably similar to Twitter, younger than Facebook, older than tik tok and maybe Instagram.

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        5 months ago

        Facebook is basically a dinosaur. The demographic that were the first users ran away right around the time when their parents got accounts.

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      5 months ago

      TNG has young fans and you can have enough old farts like me around to populate a TNG forum while the whole is still mostly younger.