Re: Emacs User Survey 2020 Results

["Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>]

On 2020-12-10 00:39 +03, Adrien Brochard <abrochard@gmx.com> wrote:
> Let's just chill about Matlab please. There was no Matlab involved here.
> I'm 100% against Matlab.
[...]
> Also no Google forms involved. I used Jotform which is not free software
> indeed, but much more compliant (HIPAA for example). But also correct
> that nobody was forced and email answers were an option specifically for
> that purpose.

Yep, sorry for participating in off topic stuff when the center piece is
your great work.  Thanks for doing this, really enjoyed doing the survey
and going through the results.

One thing I really find interesting and maybe troubling is how dominant
r/emacs is.  Personally I generally enjoy r/emacs and r/orgmode, along
with a couple other islands of humanity in the reddit cesspool (and the
odd cool thread on other subs), but IMHO Emacs deserves a better place.

I wonder if you have any insight into whether the reason r/emacs is
represented so heavily is because most your respondents come from
r/emacs or is it because r/emacs has become the de-facto place for Emacs
community.

If the latter, maybe it’d be nice to try to set up something like a
Lemmy [1] instance for Emacs in order to replace that.

[1] https://join.lemmy.ml/


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