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Would people be interested in having an instance census sometime? (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago by otter to c/main

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It might be cool to get some graphs to see what our growing community looks like. We could also make it an annual/biannual thing and see how things change over time.

We do something similar for our UBC community, and it can be pretty cool to see the results. For example, here is 2018 (we ran one in 2021 as well but haven't added the results of the wiki yet). Running a big official one infrequently seemed to increase participation and get better data. It also allowed us to include more questions without it feeling overwhelming.

If this sounds like a cool idea, what kind of questions should we include? Similarly, what is a good and privacy respecting platform to run it on?

Some potential ideas:

Demographics

Age range (in 10 year intervals)
Gender
Province & Territory
Urban vs. Rural
Ethnicity
Occupation / Career / Field of work

Instance Usage

How long you spend on Lemmy
What platform you use (multi-select)
Other Fediverse services used
Feedback on the instance or what you want to have added

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[–] DerisionConsulting 12 points 1 year ago

If you do plan on doing this, make sure you define any terms. With a question like Urban v. Rural, people might have significantly different definitions of both words. Even things like "city" have different definitions depending on what province you are in.

BC: 5,000+
Alberta: 10,000+
Saskatchewan: 5,000+
Manitoba: 7,500+