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?

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[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've literally just signed up because of the Reddit policy changes killing off third-party apps, and I'm already confused by some of the conversations on here about the "fediverse" and some stuff about Threads and EEE (whatever that is).

I'm just like, I wanted an alternative to Reddit, what the hell is all this? 😂 Even signing up to this was confusing and I consider myself more tech-savvy than most. I think the process needs to be made simpler to encourage more ex-redditors to sign up.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

EEE is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Threads is a new meta/Facebook/Instagram app that's potentially going to eventually support the activitypub protocol which is used by Lemmy, Mastodon, and other fediverse apps.

[–] Ferris@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't (still don't) fully understand the positives and negatives of picking any which server, so I chose what I thought I'd remember the best.

Failing to arrive at a strategy at all would have deterred me from making an account.