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?
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