Fediverse

There's always a group on the forefront, it makes sense that it's tech interested people Fediverse being based on open source software and all about sharing means it's right p Linux user's alley.

The 30+ demographic not sure, maybe just people a bit grown up and now under as much peer pressure to be on the more popular corporate platforms.

Currently interning as software engineer and typing this from a Linux machine. I'm Gen Z though.

● under 30

● i mean im getting there in terms of tech interests

● Yeah ok i use linux

as a young IT with friends who dont know much about IT i have to say that most around 20 use reddit, instagram, ... cause its the only thing they know. everyone they know uses them and many of them want likes, ...

if they would join the fediverse:

1. they wouldnt understand how it works. what is a server? why choose an instance? its just too complicated
2. all their friends dont use the fediverse. they would be alone and have nobody who they can share things to
3. they would mostly see tech stuff and less in categories they are interested in
4. none of the people they follow on instagram are here. the cant follow their celebrities, ... and see their content
5. the fediverse still has to less users to be successful worldwide. its growing. and just like facebook in its first years, its growing slow.

=> give it a few more years and get your friends, family & collegues on here and see the fediverse grow

It's also used by loads of tankies

Perhaps it's because people under 30 have no sense of responsibility so don't really care to communicate much with peers. They don't have the means to bring systems like this online. They don't have the historical perspective to take part in intelligent conversation, so they have Twitter and Facebook.

None of those categories are mutually exclusive when you use the tilde-30, especially.

Just like Hacker News

Is that not just a broad cross section of the society we live in?

Mid 30s, healthcare worker but I suppose I'm a tech enthusiast. Use windows on work computer due to needing a few windows only programs for work, Unraid on my NAS, and Ubuntu on my VPS. So I guess 1 and 3 are true and half of 2.

Joke's on you, I use Linux.

You're probably describing Nostr's userbase, not Lemmy :P

Every new technology is first used by this kind of people (not sure about the age), it is for now just to us to extend the area covered by various communities to non-techie areas. I hope to start with participating in !fanfiction@lemmy.ml and !hpfanfiction@lemmy.world which are hopefully far enough from the usual techie crowd.

a/s/l ?

30yr+, tech enthusiast, linux user... these are all the same thing XD

Not a tech nerd. But over 30 for sure.