I believe similarweb tracks web usage of thousands of validated users (i.e. they know their demographic profile) and they extrapolate on a per site basis form there.

Marx said democracy is a tool for the bourgeois /s

Meaning, guesswork?

We call it statistics around these parts. But yeah, it's guesswork.

With the recent issues of Tea (teaforwomen.com) posting unsecured user data, it's easy to spot the heavy bias of male users in the comments.
With a 90% male demographic, Lemmy will face problems related to a homogeneous user population and all the issues that come with it. Right now, it's shaping up to be misogynistic, but it could also head into other bad places. Lemmy needs to attract a more diverse population of users or will end up as another echo chamber for the like minded.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.ml/#demographics

How do you track gender category when it is not listed or asked anywhere on the forums?

With the recent issues of Tea (teaforwomen.com) posting unsecured user data, it's easy to spot the heavy bias of male users in the comments.
With a 90% male demographic, Lemmy will face problems related to a homogeneous user population and all the issues that come with it. Right now, it's shaping up to be misogynistic, but it could also head into other bad places. Lemmy needs to attract a more diverse population of users or will end up as another echo chamber for the like minded.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.ml/#demographics

You're talking about a specific instance Lemmy.ml which isn't even the biggest instance, but basically a tankie instance.

You should at least bring together the data of the biggest top 10 instances.

I also wonder how that website decides if I'm male or female.

Wouldn’t a tankie instance have more women?

Your response seems almost defensive, which is weird. Lemmy is definitely overwhelming male. That’s not an inherently bad thing, so I don’t get the defensive tone here or taking OP to task about data methods.

Disagree all you want, but this website is incredibly male dominated. I don’t think OP needs to do a peer-reviewed, double-blind study to say so.

People are downvoting cuz OP said this site is becoming misogynistic plus OP didn’t include the right “sample size.”

But can we be fucking honest? This website is incredibly male dominated. Like why are we arguing this? I woulda figured it was closer to like 95% male users…

And many folks (read: men) on this website don’t like calling out the reality that these heavily male-skewed outlooks can be misogynistic. Like, yeah, you bring tons of men in a room with no women, people will start to say misogynistic shit. It’s not reddit-level bad, but I’ve definitely noticed it.