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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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I tick all those boxes 😂

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Buy hearing aids

Edit: Sorry, thought this was the Bing.

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Represent

[–] within_epsilon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You caught me. I'm old, write software and regularly use Linux.

[–] Lifetrip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I fit those ... You must be right.

[–] yogo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Yep that’s me

[–] neu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Signing up and commenting on Lem should be made stupid simple so that masses can flock here instead. ANY friction in between will result in no action taken. Also more Google searche algos with Lemmy will greatly help.

[–] jamms@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I feel seen by this post.

[–] Hikiru@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

im 16. probably in the 0.1% of fediverse users. i dont really use mastodon though, too boring for me

[–] tuts@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah... We rule... :-)

[–] gruf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

have been around on mastodon for years (was one of the first few thousands accounts). it really depends where you look. i'm under 30 and the majority of people i see + interact with are under 30 too.

the "professionals" side of mastodon absolutely does skew more to that age range, but the more shitposty social groups skew way younger, and with a lot of them existing on other instances.

lemmy also has a mix and again depends where you look.

tl;dr i'm not sure i'd totally agree with that 90% statistic

[–] monerobull@monero.town 3 points 2 years ago

I'm actually quite a bit younger than that. I was very much into stocks but got scammed in the GME fiasco when they disabled the buy button and got into Monero (at least I know beforehand that crypto is manipulated as fuck). Monero lead to FOSS and now I run a xmr node, i2p node, lemmy instance, selfhost cool stuff, etc. I learned a lot of stuff this way.

[–] wolfcatreader@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Trash culture, TikTok and the likes. The gen z folx I know don't seem to prioritize privacy and quality content. Some know it and don't seem to care even after getting hacked/scammed.

Living vicariously through influencers, likes, and whatnot. Being cool, blending in...

[–] erik1984@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is natural overlap in ideology between the fediverse and FOSS (Free and Open Source Software so including Linux). The same principles apply like building something together without big corporations*. But that does lead to a rather narrow demography I'm afraid.

* I know a lot of big corporations ARE involved in the Linux kernel but I'm talking about the various distros in case of Linux.

[–] mcepl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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.

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