I think it could be useful to collect this data, both for administrative and research purposes.

I’m unsure, currently, exactly what data should be collected by the censuses (that would be proposed and discussed here). The data that is collected, should be collected anonymously. Furthermore, participation should be entirely voluntary.

  • KalciferOP
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    19 hours ago

    […] Even a voluntary survey is defeating the purpose of avoiding corporate forums. Why are they gathering the data? What are they going to do with it? How can we be assured they’re destroying the data even if we are okay with their goal? Nah. It’s a step in the wrong direction for lemmy as a whole.

    I could certainly be misinterpreting, but your statement seems to imply that the census is intended to be non-anonymous and that it won’t be publicly released. For clarity, I am proposing a census whose data is anonymously collected, and will be publicly released by the admins once completed. Although, from this statement:

    How can we be assured they’re destroying the data even if we are okay with their goal? Nah. It’s a step in the wrong direction for lemmy as a whole.

    Perhaps you don’t trust that they’ll release the data? If so, perhaps there would be a way to publicly host the data live as it comes in?