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Hexbear’s entire point in federating was to fuck shit up. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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[–] 36 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

10% trans users on lemmygrad + 30% from hexbear, assuming we have no crossover (and I don't think we have much) means 40% of our combined user base is trans (or 20 idk), WAY above world averages and way above what most instances can boast.

Compared to the lemmyverse as a whole however I'm not sure of the proportion our two instances represent, we'd have to look at active users on all relevant websites

Still waiting for blahaj to finally run a demos survey btw.

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  • [–] 76 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    … that’s not how percentages work

    lemmygrad seems to be trans-friendly, and hexbear certainly is, but you can’t just add percentages together to get the total percentage

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  • [–] 78 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Um if it's not how they work, then how come I just did it?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Two imaginary groups, one with 100 people and one with 1000. The group with 100 has 50 trans people (50%). The group with 1000 people has 500 trans people (also 50%). By your method, they would be 100% trans in total. In reality, the total would be that 550 out of 1100 are trans, again 50%.

    Second round: one group is 50/100 (50%) trans and the other is 50/1000 (5%) trans. Does that mean they are 55% trans cumulatively? No, they are 9.091% trans.

    idk the numbers for our instances but I imagine that it's around 25%.

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  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    10% trans users on lemmygrad + 30% from hexbear, assuming we have no crossover (and I don't think we have much) means 40% of our combined user base is trans, WAY above world averages and way above what most instances can boast.

    🤓 um, ackshually, it would be 20%, because sample percentages are averaged into each other when added, not counting for the actual numerical difference between the instances' userbases

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago

    10% trans users on lemmygrad + 30% from hexbear, assuming we have no crossover (and I don't think we have much) means 40% of our combined user base is trans

    Uhh I'm a dummy but wouldn't it be under 30% with the exact number depending on exact userbase sizes of 'grad and 'bear?

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