Fediverse

I wonder what it is that is keeping more diverse users away?

I know what is. It's the instances concept and lack of mobile apps. Sure you can open the web page in any mobile browser and it will render fine but just the amount of instances, their specific rules and perhaps many people not realizing you can connect to other instances is one of the biggest drawbacks even if it's the most powerful feature of the Fediverse.

Reddit is a single site, single brand, single point of contact. For Lemmy it feels like many different sites using the same template but with their own communities that other instances also have so users might get confused by the whole concept.

what is blud wafflin about

Hmm, idk the communities I follow are pretty "normal" though and don't really fit in any of these categories…

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It's really hard to understand some things unless you try, and I don't really feel like I want to understand how a social media application works, I have better things to do

Funny observation, but admittedly I fit 100%

I've seen people post about "understanding" Lemmy and the fediverse, and "figurring out" how it works, although it seems pretty straightforward. If this is a barrier for some people, preventing them from joining, I think that might be a benefit.

I've seen statistics saying the dominant age group on reddit is around 13 years. I don't mind teenagers participating, that's good. But they shouldn't dominate, if they do it becomes to much like a "follow me, I'm blind too." community.

It seems to me the debates here are better than on reddit. I hope we don't lose that.

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Not that I'm for letting it into the fediverse, but I wonder if something like Meta's Threads will end up with that other demographic given how marketing (and influencer marketing in particular) is especially effective on younger, less savvy audiences.

Lemmy by it's very nature is never going to do that. But then again, Reddit was never particularly hip; I teach at University and not even my nerdier students used that, let alone anything from the fediverse. That was all TikTok and Snapchat.

What did you expect? It’s difficult to sign up for and participate in.

yes, yes, and yes. Moved to the fediverse because my presence on data mining platforms like windows, twitter, google, etc is already minimal, so no point in letting reddit spy on me.

Is diversity really a good thing? I was on reddit before the great flood, and those days were better. I was on youtube before it exploded, and while there's more higher-quality content today, there are far more quality content videos that will never see the light of day because of all the restrictions. Even discord servers go to shit once too many folks join. Diversity for the sake of diversity is stupidity.

Oh wow, maybe go back to Reddit or whatever teenage swamp you enjoy?

How do you block 196 and all the other troll posts? Those feel like the <20 crowd.

Pretty sure women aren't that interested in free software or open technologies.

The demographics you described can understand why it's important to be part of the fediverse, so they come here.

Your typical npc walking down the street just doesn't get it, and they're fine with all the awful things that drive us away from mainstream social media.

I do not get that feeling at all! The opposite actually. Mostly seeing some dank ass memes that people you're talking about wouldn't be particularly enthralled by

Yes, that why I blocked most of them, this is not a fucking Linux forum, you nerds, even if it operates on foss