I'm sure anyone 28 or older will hate me for even pointing this out

It may be surprising, but actually Reddit's core demographics on the age front are fairly similar. Average age in reddit is also mid-to-late 20s last I checked. You have some notable exceptions to this trend--leagueoflegends, leagueoflegends, fortnite, leagueoflegends--but for the most part, your typical reddit crowd tends to be in their 20s.

Also, I just turned 30 last week, but I don't hate you for being shocked.

The only reason this doesn't surprise me is that this is likely due to self-identification.

Probably. It might also be to do with hard-choosing between vague houses. Each house has traits that overlap with another. Gryffindors are supposed to be the HEROES but are also implicitly loyal (a Hufflepuff thing if there ever were one). Ravenclaws are nerds for nerddom's sake, but competence is a core trait in being Slytherin and Gryffindor too, just tinted with another purpose. Slytherins and Gryffindors are both super concerned with image and ambition, for somewhat different reasons.

It's hard to escape the notion that Slytherins are infested with racists while gryffindors are infested with elitist pricks who can't imagine why anyone would be annoyed at their self-righteousness. Since the group taking this survey tilted fairly hard left in the self-identify politically, it's presumable that there is more comfort with being infested with elitist, self-righteous pricks than with out-and-out racists.

Edit: in the interests of transparency, I should self-identify that I said I was ENFJ ("The Protagonist") and put myself as Gryffindor, but could easily be a Slytherin depending on the day and the topics I recently discussed.

I'm sure anyone 28 or older will hate me for even pointing this out, but that is shockingly old! I question how much that has to do with the places users have been taken from and how much it has to do with the goals of the site appealing to bitter people who hate where the internet is right now.

I think a lot of it may simply have to do with the following combination:

• Users in their mid-to-late twenties and into their thirties are typically Millennials, a generation that grew up as the internet really started to take off. The internet practically belonged to Millennials for quite some time.
• When you're younger, you're really just interested primarily in memes and entertainment. Sure, you can be interested in politics and news as well, but you tend to stick around for the lulz the most.
• As you grow older, you can still be interested in entertaining content, but you start becoming less interested in the current memes and jokes flying around the internet (Gen Z is now taking over) and instead find yourself wanting to figure out what's going on in the world more than you did when you were younger.
• As you grow older, you're also often more interested in politics, and with the current state of political polarization plaguing every corner of the internet, it's turning people away from the websites they ordinarily enjoy and destroying what used to be healthy relationships between them and their loved ones.

Take all of the above and you have an internet culture that is shifting away from Millennials, a tool that they use so frequently that parts of it have become a part of their identity, and on top of it they're shifting away from their old interests and moving onto new ones. Worse still, the growing toxicity floating around is driving them away from the few things they still enjoy on the internet. In other words, there is now a chasm growing between Millennials and the current internet culture, leaving a wide gap in internet identity. Tildes is filling that wide gap for at least a certain subset of that Millennial population because it appeals to those things that are missing. It promises civility, stability, privacy, interesting topics of conversation, and sub-communities that people can become a part of.

This is coming from another Millennial, but I don't really speak for the majority. This is just my own assessment :)

Moreover, I wonder how that'll change over time. Assuming this site will grow, does it just attract more of the same demographic, or will it tap into something that younger people realize they also want?

Right now Tildes is establishing a certain community and mindset, and tools are being considered and developed to keep this community as it is. There will definitely be quite a bit of variation, but I don't think anyone here minds that at all. In fact, we probably welcome that variety openly. What matters is that the core principles of Tildes are upheld. In fact, as Gen Z gets older, they will very likely start experiencing problems similar to the ones Millennials face and a place like Tildes may end up being exactly what they're looking for. I think that could be a very special thing.

I bet if we all decided to do a bunch of decent online Hogwarts house tests, Slytherin would be second, as it tends to be defined as just Ravenclaw but with more self-serving ambition.

That's debatable, actually. Slytherins value cunning rather than intelligence, as well as valuing traits like leadership and ambition. They're quite a bit different from Ravenclaws. What I find more surprising is that Hufflepuffs aren't more prevalent than Gryffindors, given their values for e.g. hard work and patience.

Of course, we could very much disagree on this and I could be way off the mark. In any case, I'm sure enough people here are nerdy enough to have taken the online sorting tests.

Yeah, 3 or 4 people know what's up. I wish I had thought of that myself

I use IRC everyday actually, and I'm well below the age when it was normal. It's a great place to find people interested in anything tech related, and I love sometimes just randomly putting keywords into the channel name and seeing where I end up. And if the singularity isn't terminal compatible I might just stick with IRC too :P

@icecapman10 is also 14.. so this is a bit odd.

It makes for nice varity where some people actually have life experience.

For being "pseudo-scientific bullshit", MBTI has rather impressive predictive power in my experience. That nobody is doing any serious research on a topic does not automatically make it bullshit.

I would have written SailfishOS, but just bought a new phone since my Jolla 1 just gave up on me and SailfishOS support for my phone is to come in the next update.