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.
Nah, that idea can bugger right off.
Lemmy doesn’t need a “corpus of data”. Researchers can either request that people contribute, or they can bugger right off and scrape like anyone else.
Admins don’t need demographic data at all.
What makes you so certain of that?
Because it’s lemmy, not some corporate bullshit.
They might want it, but they don’t need it