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

38 year old moderately tech savvy person here, much more hardware savvy than software if that makes sense? When the whole reddit thing exploded, I concluded that I was pretty much going to stop using reddit once Boost stopped working. Then I saw someone mention Lemmy in a comment so I searched it up and here I am. I didn't know there was a reddit alternative, or a Twitter, instagram or YouTube (decentralised) alternative. Just finding out all this now. I didn't even think of centralised VS decentralised until the last few days, this is all new to me and still wrapping my head around the whole federation concept, particularly with the Meta etc. I feel like I need an ELI5 on that concept but I'm still yet to search and find if an ELI5 community exists here lol

But I think it makes sense that the demographic might be older. I don't want to shoehorn any age group into one large generalisation but I'd dare assume that under 30-40s are happy to be where their peers are? And to be clear, I'm not an instagram/twitter/tiktok user. And I only use Facebook for a side business I ran and it's marketplace.

[–] spicycape@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Hey btw Boost is coming to lemmy also!

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

Eh it’s that, or the constant droning of zaps from Nostr clients. Take your pic I guess, but those are the choices if you’re looking for something decentralized atm.

[–] Durango807@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

None of the above!

[–] tinkermind@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago
[–] wargreymon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We do need to attract young people, this is what social media do as well, very important.

[–] Koffiato@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's because Fediverse is very complicated right now. E-Mail wasn't, that's why everyone adopted it pretty quickly.

I honestly don't see a future where Lemmy topling Reddit or Mastodon topling Twitter.

Federation's greatest strength is also it's weakness imo.

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