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 year ago

    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 year ago

      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 year ago

        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 year ago

          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.