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?

  • @jerdle_lemmyEnglish
    3•1 year ago
    1. 23, so no.
    2. Enthusiast, yeah, trying to get into tech for a job, but don’t have the CS degree they all want.
    3. No, but not by choice. Not running Linux because I buggered my UEFI somehow, and so it won’t allow me to boot from USB or switch to my Linux partition.

    I think it’s because early Millennials are near the peak of techiness, and the sort of person to switch to an open-source, decentralised, somewhat anti-commercial website is also the sort of person to use Linux. I’m early Gen Z, but fit the other two categories.