The mastodon and lemmy content I’m seeing feels like 90% of it comes from people who are:

  • ~30 years old or older

  • tech enthusiasts/workers

  • linux users

There’s nothing wrong with that particular demographic or anything, but it doesn’t feel like a win to me if the entire fediverse is just one big monoculture.

I wonder what it is that is keeping more diverse users away? Is picking a server/federation too complicated? Or is it that they don’t see any content that they like?

Thoughts?

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 年前

    30s software engineer / linux user here.

    We are exactly who you want as the “primer” user group. We will collectively make sure the whole thing works before the load really rams up.

    • SpaceAape@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 年前

      We’re the generation that learned to troubleshoot bc we had to. If we wanted to play that shiny new game or app, we had to actually get it running first.

      • AVeryCleverName@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        1 年前

        I think about this a lot. I’m so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.

        • NoMoreCocaine@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 年前

          TBH, I actually thought he was talking about autoexec.bat and EMS memory, etc, rather than windows. I guess I’m slightly older? Maybe not. I’m also thinking windows registry thing hasn’t really gone away. Yet.