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Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by gamer@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Yes. Reddit was probably the same for years.

[-] Paradox@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

It was. There was a time when "join our chat" was an irc room and not a discord "server"

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ah. IRC, the Slack before Slack.

I am loving Lemmy, in part because I feel like people are having more personal and interesting conversations.

this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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