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Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

It's because even children can be scarily good at specific things. I have a cousin (she's a child) and has a YouTube channel, knows her way around content creation to a basic extent but absolutely can't print a document or use MS Word. She was good at using phones when she was a toddler. So she got really good at the things she cared about and didn't bother with the rest. The older generation didn't have stuff like this to begin with, so of course they would take longer to learn stuff than a person who lives with it and around it from the time they were born.