POLL: Fedi people, do you have a website or blog or personal wiki or some other kind of online Thing That You Control Yourself that other people can find you on that isn't paid for / maintained by someone else, meaning YOUR THING is at a web address like you.whatever, not at you.someonelse.whatever or someoneelse.whatever/you, I mean are you paying the tenner a year or however much for a whole-ass domain name all for yourself (or for you and a small group of IRL friends), and if not do you want to be, THE POLL, and here is the guidance and elaboration on options:

1) No and I don't want my own site, Fedi and/or other social media scratches that itch for me just fine and I'm content with this arrangement

2) No, but I have a Vague Yearning or a Curious Itch and I wonder sometimes what it would be like, but so far it's just feelings and not plans, I haven't taken any concrete steps towards making My Own Website a real thing that exists, but I'm comfortable saying that I would probably *like* it to exist some day when I'm ready

3) No, but more of a Not Yet than a no; maybe I've bought a domain name and not put anything on it yet, or I haven't yet bought a domain name but I'm researching my options (whether I do it in a lazy few minutes here and there or in focused making-notes sort of study, both count for the purposes of this question), I've spent some time thinking about this With Intent, and I feel less "*wouldn't* this be nice" and more "*won't* this be nice" about this endeavour

4) Yes I own at least one domain name, come on Dan this is Fedi, and at least one of my domains even have websites or services associated with them

BOOST THIS TOOT to get an INCREDIBLY INACCURATE IMPRESSION of how many people have and/or want websites and a more accurate picture of how many people On Fedi have and/or want websites

1) No and I'm OK with that
7%
2) No and I am not OK with that
7.7%
3) No and I am taking steps towards Yes
10.2%
4) Yes
75%
Poll ended at .
(reminder, Linux users make up 20% of Fedi and 2% of the real world, never forget how poorly we represent humanity in general)
Muting this thread now 'cause the results are already starkly conclusive
@ifixcoinops I would argue we represent the best of humanity, IMHO 😉
@requiem every 2% thinks that ;)

@ifixcoinops my 1%'r friends don't, but they are the original 1%'rs, not the billionaire kind...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_One_Percenter

Operation One Percenter - Wikipedia

@requiem The pubs I've drank in with 1%'ers were WAY more fun than the more modern sorts
@ifixcoinops now I want a reality show called "1% vs 1%"...
@requiem I'd watch that. Hell I'd buy a ticket for the taping
@ifixcoinops one season would probably do it.

@requiem @ifixcoinops

Depends, this sounds like the "astronaut vs. caveperson" -argument. It all depends on what you can bring with.

@iju @requiem @ifixcoinops aaand that’s the concept for Season Two: changing what comes with our contestants.
@ifixcoinops By logic you can both be right ;)

@ifixcoinops

That's kinda why I'm here. People *tend to* behave better. It doesn't necessarily make us better, but it damn well makes it more pleasant to hang out.

@ifixcoinops I remember reading just recently (Steven J Vaughn-Nicholls?) that Linux users have ticked up substantially. I think it was approaching 5% in general. More like 18% in parts of India (!).

Now you could, without lying, throw in all the Android and Chrome users. And even Macs are simply a pretty face on BSD, so....

Funny how once you put a fence around the open source software and stick your own flag on it, you can pretend it's not the same at all. Tragedy of the commons.

@ifixcoinops now at 4% Linux Desktop, according to at least one source. However much larger percentage when looking at server usage.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/

Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats

This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.

StatCounter Global Stats
@jeffmcneill I tend to mask most parts of the request header in curl requests on my servers pretending to be a random non-linux desktop environment, which may imply an even higher percentage for linux.
@ifixcoinops isnt it more like. 60% of fedi
@[email protected] @ifixcoinops it depends on what subgroup of fedi one is exposed to ig :3
@ifixcoinops That fedi number seems low. I imagine most accesses of fedi (like the web in general) is done from mobile devices, and the percentage of Linux users using Linux phones is still very small. Is there a breakdown by desktop devices?
@ifixcoinops Insert that xkcd meme that’s been going around this week, with “some people only own 2 or 3 domains” “and a dot io version of at least one of them”