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?

  • @BanditEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    I am none of those things and I didn’t think it was too complicated, I just had no idea it existed until I joined r/redditalternatives.

    I love the old internet feel. Once I saw the fesiverse ‘map’ it made perfect sense.

    The thing I’m struggling with the most is being able to subscribe to communities on some instances with this account but not all instances. And being able to add some instances to an app (liftoff, tusk) but not all. That’s the most frustrating for me right now.