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?

  • bubblegoose@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You are leaving out all of GenX…we kind of understand tech, we built the shit you are using.

    • Sabakodgo@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Most Gen X people I know from work (developers), hate to use new stuff. For example, Slack or GIt doesn’t exist for them, and use call/sms and usb/email instead. Some of them learned facebook and stayed on it.

      • legion02@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s almost like the shit we learned when we learned this shit is the shit we tend to know our whole lives. Shit.