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?

  • OverzeetopEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    It’s open source, so it’s dead simple. Just go to the git repository and download the code and a compile it for your system. When it doesn’t work, it will throw an error and the simplist thing to do is just to a crash dump and then go back an manually update the bytes in the machine code that called the wrong register and boom you’re golden.

    JK - go here and find an instance (like lemmy) to join. You can log in on mobile, too, with one of the official apps.