You caught me. I'm old, write software and regularly use Linux.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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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.
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There just needs to be automatic instance assignment for new users with registration time opt-out for those who want to choose. Pick whichever one is the most populated. If that's down at that particular moment in time, pick the next most populated and so on. Take the instance picking out of the equation for people who don't care about that. People who do care can still pick their own.
That being said, it's difficult to grow a new website in general unless it's already got established backing from other source (i.e. a large corporation, celebrity, etc.), It's not like old days in the 90s when there were far fewer websites in general.
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Hey, I'm not using Linux... on my desktop
I feel personally attacked...!
I just joined lemmy and I am 20 and I am liking it here
"Only" the first two apply to me as I blasphemously love Windows, but I somewhat agree with your observation.
Almost got me!
I fit none of your 3 categories! But I would say with the slightly less convenient joining process compared to most social media, the Fediverse is going to have to built up by people willing to take that burden, at least at first
FWIW, someone on my Mastodon TL suspected the same thing and made a poll regarding the users age. About 850 people voted and 63% turned out to be 30-50 years old.
Here's the toot in question. In Spanish tho https://mastodon.social/@batmanyyo/110668830560740847
All true for me... except I haven't booted into my Linux install in literal months.