The mastodon and lemmy content I’m seeing feels like 90% of it comes from people who are:
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~30 years old or older
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tech enthusiasts/workers
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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?
I don’t want to stereotype anyone, but in my own social experience, younger groups don’t give a shit about corporate monopolies or privacy, they just want things to work fast and automatically (ex: TikTok). And those I know in older brackets are still on Facebook and complaining that they don’t want to deal with change because their family/business/workflow would be affected.
I happen to be 38, a linux user, and a gamer. And I concur that my age-group has just always seemed to be more open to new technologies for some reason.
I think younger people don’t give a shit about privacy because they grew up in a post 9/11 surveillance world. Facebook, Instagram and the internet at large became a giant surveillance machine and they’ve never known another possibility, so it’s normalized to them.
We are early adopters
Not just older/younger groups. There are plenty my age (mid 30) that don’t care or have a clue about tech+privacy. The local nursery post totally public photos of the kids to the internet… yeahhh no I opted out of that and I felt the weirdo. It’s not even like I’m tinfoil or anything
You are me, I am you.
We came of age having to figure out early Windows OSs, write html for our MySpace pages and playing games that were surrounded by active mod cultures.
I don’t think that’s the case for todays young uns
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replied to the wrong person sorry