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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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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

30s software engineer / linux user here.

We are exactly who you want as the "primer" user group. We will collectively make sure the whole thing works before the load really rams up.

[–] SpaceAape@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We're the generation that learned to troubleshoot bc we had to. If we wanted to play that shiny new game or app, we had to actually get it running first.

[–] AVeryCleverName@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think about this a lot. I'm so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.

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[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I saw a pull on Mastodon and only 4% said that they were under 18

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago
  • I'm under 30 (Under 20 too) X
  • Tech enthusiast/comp sci student ✔️
  • Linux User ✔️
[–] FinallyDebunked@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

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