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?

  • @Secret300
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    221 year ago

    Probably because tech enthusiasts are the only ones that care about their privacy so they use open source alternative before anyone else

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      There’s nothing “private” about Lemmy though? In fact it’s probably less private than reddit.

      • Alatain
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        41 year ago

        It isn’t attempting to capture your personal data and sell it to ad companies like most social media platforms are though.

        • nfntordr
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          1 year ago

          So would monetising user data be a more accurate statement than data privacy?

          • Alatain
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            21 year ago

            It all falls under the same blanket concept of privacy rights, but yes monetizing user data is a more accurate sub category. It doesn’t truly matter what we call it as long as the discussion is being had.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I think with privacy some people associate the collection and using of private data to create user profiles for advertising and algorithms. While you can see IP, votes etc. as an admin (the same goes for other forums including Reddit, btw), at the moment there is no huge company behind Lemmy which collects sensitive data about it’s users.