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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do you guys realize how much 40% actually is in a single year? That's crazy. Don't just look at the 5.1%.

I'm sure it's heavily influenced by the Steam Deck, it being a great device for porn and all, but still.

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

It does correlate with the numbers Steam released a few days or weeks ago.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Windows 11 not installing on "older" machines is big too.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

We really need to thank Microsoft. They're pushing a LOT of people to try out the free stuff.

[–] procapra@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago

Linux users are gooners confirmed.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 196 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Pornhub is lowkey a very skilled tech company. Delivering a quality video platform on the scale they do is incredibly difficult.

Also obligatory: Year of the Linux Desktop! 🎉

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 76 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Netflix but for horny people

[–] SilverCode@programming.dev 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Netflix and chill" has lead me to believe those 2 Ven diagrams overlap quite a lot

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[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago

I don't like their company because they are also like the meta of porn in the sense that they bought up all their competitors and have made a monolith service

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I made it to the final round of interviewing with them a couple years ago. I think it would have been interesting to work for them. They have PHP and even some Laravel in their stack.

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[–] transebding_the_binary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 3 days ago (4 children)

the age of linux is cumming upon os.

ok this is really bad , ill see myself out....

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

Not what the distro meant by release

[–] witness_me@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 days ago

I have nothing constructive to say. I laughed too much at this.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As long as you don't use any of the windows and use the front door like my pet penguin, I won't mind.
And there's a kernel of truth in there and by that I don't mean the kernel of an apple.

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[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago

That's all me ur welcome gais

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 103 points 4 days ago

Probably Steam Deck users with that handheld device in one hand and their handheld device in the other.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

So what you're saying is that there are more wankers on Linux nowadays!???

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[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Now I want to see the usage stats for e621.

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[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I am very suspicious of the -26% Apple marketshare. It makes me feel like there's more to this than it seems at first. There's no way 26% of Apple users stopped using Apple devices within a year.

Edit: maybe it could be caused by a large user base increase that shifted the demographics, but this fast? And the PornHub bans across US states started only this year for the most part if I'm not mistaken, so it shouldn't affect this data?

[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

They said in the report that they have grown marketshare in Asia and Africa, as less people use apple in those regions the percentage dropped.

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

2024 was the release of iOS 17.4, when Apple allowed third party browsers to use their own engine instead of WebKit/Safari as a layer beneath. So it could very well be that Firefox Mobile and Chrome Mobile on iOS don’t get registered as iOS Device in this survey due to their user agent.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

No browser uses a different engine yet (presumably because Apple only allows them to offer this in the EU, under draconian conditions).

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[–] Nyadia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

My apologies, this data is misleading. Most of the new traffic is actually just me mass downloading and data hoarding porn across thousands of VMs. Whenever I need to rub one out I ssh into one of them and watch it that way. Keeps it off my main machine and keeps my browser history clean.

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rube Goldberg machine but for masturbation.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear. Penis stuck in fan.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 41 points 3 days ago (15 children)

New gens are ruining everything - "vertical video" gen-z, really?
Y'all need a spanking.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Those gen y and x ages are whack

Also, I hate zoomers and their vertical videos too

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'm sorry. There are people who go to an adult hardcore porn site and then type in "Suitable for work"??? Like do you think the site wouldn't get flagged at your work?

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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Vertical video is better for content focused on a single standing performer, because it allows as much of the screen resolution as possible to show the body. Horizontal is better for a performer lying down or any traditional horizontal sex acts, for the same reason.

I'm probably reading a little too far into this, but IMO Gen Z is much less interested in "simulations" of intercourse and is more interested in something "real", i.e someone doing a dance. Intercourse feels like a fantasy, like you're supposed to imagine that you're the one having intercourse, it's that fantasy which is appealing. Something like dancing or dirty talking is more honest about what it is, since a video of someone dancing or talking is essentially the same experience as if they were actually there in front of you. I believe that because Gen Z is more digitally native than older generations, they see digital content not as a substitute or fantasy for a real thing, but rather as a real thing in itself, and the nature of the content they consume reflects that. Another example of this is the shift from real-life streamers who fake personalities but pretend that they are presenting their real selves, to vtubers - who implicitly acknowledge that they are playing a fictional character for their stream as symbolized by their avatars. The human streamers are a fantasy substitute for a real human friend, but with a vtuber the content does not pretend to be different than what it actually is - a pretend character putting on a show for your enjoyment. By acknowledging its artificiality and integrating it into the content itself, it shifts from being something "fake" and "simulated" to being something "real". To me it's the exact same dynamic manifesting in a different area.

Now of course, I do understand that vertical content also simply means you don't need to rotate your phone, and that Gen Z is almost exclusively using the Internet on the phone vs. the desktop as older generations will. But this too is essentially a reflection of the feeling that digital content is not an artificial recreation confined to a specific display area (a TV or computer) but rather perpetually available (your phone), as would be appropriate for something which has taken on the status of being real rather than fake. The two forces reinforce each other, imo.

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[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 49 points 4 days ago

That's one horney Linux user

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

If they're anything like me, it's the old laptop that you'd install Linux on as an experiment.

And maybe that laptop was only ah... Semi-retired at the time.

[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 4 days ago

Sorry guys... My gooning streaks are skewing the data; I'm the masturbations Georg and shouldn't have been counted...

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 days ago

More wankers every year.

[–] lemmy@programming.dev 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Firefox have 8 percent on desktop that's great

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 25 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Does porn work well on Linux ? looking to switch

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[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

That link is amazing... they even have maps 😂 !

[–] Troz@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 days ago

The pornhub blog is surprisingly good reading every once in a while. They take their data analysis seriously.

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