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Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by gamer@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] tobier@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Honestly wouldn't mind Lemmy being a 30+ monoculture. Let the kids stay on their TikBooks and SnapFaces where they make porn or whatever else kids do these days.

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

To be honest, the NSFW content here on Lemmy is quite good, lol.

[–] instantaneu@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@tobier as a 23 year old engineer idk how to feel about this

[–] tobier@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well it would be nice to have a corner of the Internet that isn't invaded by teenage desperately attention seeking social media drones.

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kinda hate how my peers have ruined the image of the youth. Now older people look at me and they're thinking: This damn kid probably watch braindead TikTok content all day

[–] tobier@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've lost all hope for young people when most of the "proposed" content on Facebook or similar are either: young people making softcore porn videos, or young people miming to songs.