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Apologies if I missed one that has already been held. But I saw a member census of beehaw, which was really interesting. I'm not suggesting gathering of any personally identifying info, but more generally getting a sense of who is here on kbin.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Magic skeleton covered in meat and powered by lightening. The connection between the world inside my skull and other's worlds is very hindered by my inadequate usage of my meat-flaps. If I could get my meat flaps to work better perhaps I could share my inside world more accurately

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

lightening

Shine bright my friend

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Magic skeleton is great, reminds me of:

You’re a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust; what do you have to be scared of?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am a meat popsicle

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

I'm a human being residing on planet Earth, and I'm composing this message in the English language.

What interesting things did you find from beehaw census?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they had gender split, country etc. It'd be nice to know if kbin mirrors more of the reddit general membership or if it differs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think people's interests/hobbies are much more interesting than there gender/country etc. Like:

  • Are you a dog person or cat person?
  • Do you think video games are too violent?
  • Do you believe in alternative medicine?
  • Toilet seat up or down?
  • Do you like beans?
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might have seen enough bean content for one lifetime.

I like the idea of hobbies and interests being a part. Might help see if we have strong potential 'niche' communities

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A separate magazine for this really might be the way to go. A place for users to introduce themselves and answer various surveys. Or, like I offered below, I could open up /m/namethefediverse to shudder activity that isn't me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might be nice to have a place to introduce and say hi, not sure if I've seen a magazine for that purpose yet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd be willing to create one if I could get one or two more people in on modding it. I have zero moderation experience and I tend to burn out on long term projects. With some help I could probably keep at it, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Understanding the demographics is quite important context for the interest and hobbies.

For example, in real life I don't think I've ever heard anyone express the opinion that it's acceptable for the general public to own and carry firearms in their day-to-day life, yet you'd see this view upvoted shockingly often on Reddit. Understanding that Reddit has a heavy American skew is important context for the views that get expressed there.

If you asked kbinauts what their favourite foods were and found out that they include kielbasa and kotlet schabowy, it might be helpful to contextualise that with a sense of what proportion of kbinauts are Polish.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. Let's avoid the standard identity politics categories like gender, sexual orientation, race, blah, blah...

Can I add to your list:

  • TP fold vs. scrunch.
  • Both socks first, or one sock one shoe at a time.
  • Shirt buttoned from the top or bottom.
  • Innie or outie.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm both intrigued and horrified by most of those!

Shirt buttoned from the bottom??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Is your homepage /sub or /all?
  • Is this your first Fediverse site?
  • What theme do you use?
  • Do you prefer app, desktop or mobile site?
  • What deadly sin do you think should get a pass?
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am definitely human.

One of the benefits of having an online persona is not being put in a box (of any description).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh my god, are you me?!?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

41-year-old cisgender female pagan who is still working on her introduction for Mastodon since last fall and so isn't well, great at answering census still.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nice to meet you! Not sure if you were part of witches vs patriarchy on reddit but I miss that subreddit.
Never used mastodon, starting to think I should make an account as I've abandoned dmy twitter

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

I loved witches vs patriarchy! Would be cool to have a similar place here maybe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would! I'm not the right person to start it so hopefully one crops up organically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah me neither, I'm not a practising witch so it doesn't feel like my place to start that community

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I lurked a bit on witches vs patriarchy from time to time, but I was always more into frivolous things on Reddit. I'm keeping my eye open for witchcraft and feminism boards here to lurk on, though. I'm on witches.live on Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll have to keep an eye out too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Cis-male, heterosexual, sexually defiant meat-popsicle on drugs and playing video games, checking in.

Edit: Meant deviant, not defiant. I mean i guess either works, but the intent was more of a "Eh $20 is $20" deal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hah nice to meet you! I was thinking more of an anonymised questionnaire, not sure how or who would do it. Also not sure how beehaw held theirs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a long-ass name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Damn, dude captured 50% of the server demographic right there with one sentence.
If you'd also said you had posted this using GNU/Linux, it would have been 100%

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

Canadian. Mostly here for politics, news and sports.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hey, it's me, your southern cousin. Here for news, politics, and sports. Also video games but that may be implied on an internet forum...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a hot milf in your area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral. I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Over on Mastodon, the custom is the "(hash)introduction" hashtag for things like this.

Not sure what that custom ought to be on Kbin, Lemmy and similar, since everything has to be assigned to a magazine.

Maybe a (hash)introduction microblog post on /m/random?

Or someone could set up a magazine specifically for introductions, because magazines are kind of like the "main" hashtag that a piece of content would be associated with, but that seems like overkill.

... Anyway I just did a search (here) on kbin.social and it seems like there are already a few uses of that hashtag in various magazines, presumably where people feel most comfortable or where their account is going to be used. I can imagine some people might have different accounts for different magazines. Whatever works for them, I guess.

If you want your census, that might be a place to start. As for participating, I'll probably do the hashtag on /m/random at some point. Eventually. When I'm ready.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I guess I could adjust the rules on /m/namethefediverse? Or we could just make an /m/rollcall magazine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm ugly and I'm proud!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think people's interests/hobbies are much more interesting than there gender/country etc. Like:

I'm American, I like Aquariums, "Pro" Wrestling, NASCAR, veggie gardening, Jesus, and a plethora of other things. On politics, I skew center and I know a lot of people on these platforms hate that, but as Popeye says, I yam what I yam.

Are you a dog person or cat person?
Do you think video games are too violent?
Do you believe in alternative medicine?
Toilet seat up or down?
Do you like beans?

Dog
No, parents should just learn how to be damn parents and monitor what their kids do.
Not really, I'll try it but I don't think it works very well.
Toilet seat all the way down, seat and lid.
Depends on the beans, I mean there are a hundred or more types.

For example, in real life I don't think I've ever heard anyone express the opinion that it's acceptable for the general public to own and carry firearms in their day-to-day life

This post was right, it's an American thing, and sure not all Americans, but for some of us to get a license to carry we have to have a photo taken, our fingerprints taken, and pay a fee every year.

TP fold vs. scrunch.
Both socks first, or one sock one shoe at a time.
Shirt buttoned from the top or bottom.
Innie or outie.

Fold, you scrunchers are using too much paper and that's environmentally bad. Get a bidet everyone.
Socks first, then shoes.
You should button it from the top.
Innie

Is your homepage /sub or /all?
Is this your first Fediverse site?
What theme do you use?
Do you prefer app, desktop or mobile site?
What deadly sin do you think should get a pass?

I tried all, but it was full of the same thing from a dozen different instances, so I switched to sub.
No, I tried Diaspora for a while, and if I remember that was some form of fediverse.
I'm rocking Toykyo theme right now, but usually dark.
Desktop. Desktop is the superior experience for most things, you can't change my mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

An imaginary fox that doesn't exist. This comment doesn't exist either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm ur mom <3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey! I'm a 23 year old trans woman. Mostly here for talking about videogames, game dev, music and being queer. :)

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

There's an /m/GirlGamer group here. A bit quiet right now, but I post in it at times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh cool I didn't know! That was always such a nice community on reddit ^^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a dark elf. From Morrowind

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