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?

  • Gal Fawkes@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    you ever feel like tech people embrace new technology first?

    you’re not wrong, and it’s something that needs to be acknowledged, but I can’t think of a single innovation on the internet that wasn’t dominated by older (when you demarcate 30 as “older”) tech people before coming to popularity among the general public