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?

  • DustinEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Oh man, that’s totally me! But I can’t tell you why it is so appealing to my demographic. I don’t know anyone IRL here and nothing about it seems like it would scare off everyone else…

    BUT while we are all here:

    • Trapper Keepers
    • Garbage Pail Kids
    • Music on cassette tapes
    • Vim > Emacs
    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Vim is the best editor for editing directly on the server, but you really shouldn’t be editing directly on the server.

      • DustinEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Then you’ll really like to hear that not only do I edit the file with vim on the production server, but I did it as root after a “sudo su”… and then I committed the change from prod… with svn… only so that I could bring my dev environment up to speed with what is now in production with an svn update.