I’m interested in knowing what you guys are using to access this community, whether or not it’s via mobile phone or via laptop or desktop.

If accessing via a laptop or a desktop, what is your OS? Windows, MacOS, or Linux? And if Linux, what distro are you using?

If accessing via a mobile device, you can add in some details about the app you are using or if you’re using it via a mobile browser.

Of course, you guys can add more details.

Just to provide a bit of a background behind the question: I’ve had this preconception that the ones here are among the more technologically-inclined (whatever that means), and thus, I’m curious about the make-up of devices and software used to access and interact with this community.

UPDATE:

As promised, here’s a link to the compiled data (with some rudimentary stats). I will be adding more onto them this weekend (if more replies come in).

First of all, thank you to all who’ve responded. While my preconceptions haven’t been shattered, I’m also pleasantly surprised to find out non-techies, refugees from Reddit, who have jumped in to the Threadiverse despite it all. I dunno if that’s indicative of the dumpster fire that is Reddit right now, or the tenacity of those who’ve sought refuge here. Maybe both.

I will be expanding on my thoughts, and others, on a separate reply.

  • megane-kun@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    First of all, I must state that I only started this thread with the intent of it being a “vibe check” of sorts, and to see whether or not my preconceptions about the userbase here is indeed correct. It has never been intended as a survey of any sort.

    Now, with that disclaimer out of the way…

    Here is a screenshot of my rudimentary summarisation of the data:

    screenshot of a spreadsheet showing some rudimentary statistics

    There have been 49 respondents thus far, 32 of them coming from Lemmy and 17 coming from Kbin. There was a time last night when responses from Kbin were pouring in, but overall, a good chunk of the responses came from Lemmy.

    That’s where the clear-cut results end. A running theme while compiling the data I’ve got from your responses is how flimsy my attempts at organizing data have been. On the broad, I divided the data between “mobile” and “desktop and laptop”, but there are some responses that made me question this categorization. I took notes and put them in their own column (one for ‘mobile’, another for ‘desktop/laptop’ and still another for other notes that might be helpful to me and others who would be crunching through the responses.

    With that said, let’s move on to the results for the ‘desktop’ side of things. This includes laptops, chromebooks, and virtual machines. There are a handful of others I only listed as ‘unspecified’. If there are any mis-placed, mis-categorized, responses, it’s on me.

    There are 29 respondents who said they are using some kind of a desktop (or a laptop or others.) And among them, 16 mentioned using Windows, 11 mentioned using a Linux distro, and 4 mentioned using iOS or macOS. This shouldn’t be at all a surprise for me. I already expected Linux being over-represented here, but 38% (11 out of 29) is still quite a lot. The surprise came with the number of people mentioning using iOS or macOS, garnering a decent 14% (4 out of 29).

    For those who mentioned using a desktop browser, Firefox is mentioned the most, with 15 mentions (plus two of us using LibreWolf, 17). It shouldn’t be surprising at all, I suppose, with the overall ethos of Lemmy having a comfortable overlap with what Firefox stands for. Chromium-based browsers have 6 mentions, with two (2) using Edge on Windows. There is one mention of using kbin as a PWA on a chromebook, which I counted as a laptop (and hence, in the desktop category).

    Now, onto the mobile side of things. There are 32 respondents who said (or interpreted as saying that) they use a mobile device. 21 of those respondents further said (or again, I took as saying that) they use an Android device. There are six who use an Apple device (counting the mentions of iPhone and iPad). This seems to track well with the corresponding results from the desktop side of things (19%, 6 out of 32 in mobile, as opposed to 14%, 4 out of 29 in desktop).

    There are 14 responses saying they use Jerboa, two (2) saying they use Memmy, and one (1) mention of using mlem. Considering that both Memmy and mlem are iOS apps, that’s 3 (of 21) using iOS apps to access Lemmy. This still seems to jive well with the other stats so far.

    There are 7 responses saying they use some sort of a PWA solution to acess Lemmy/Kbin. There are 9 responses saying they use a mobile browser. If put together, there’s 15 responses saying they use the browser (either through a PWA solution, or not) to access Lemmy/kbin.

    And I guess that’s it? Again, thank you everyone for responding.