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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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[-] Sabakodgo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would say lemmings age are 25 to 45. People in this range are, in my experience, the most technologically educated.
Gen Z is somehow terrible with anything outside basic android/ios.

[-] Coke6833@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Most of my early 20's friends almost go below 'basic' phone/computer usage, it feels unbelievable sometimes

[-] HopperMCS@twisti.ca 7 points 1 year ago

25 here. Sick and fucking tired of people calling my gen "digital natives"

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Why? Would you prefer "tech indigenous"?

[-] valeen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I saw an old friend post a few years ago asking if anyone else's students didn't know what file directories were. And I don't mean freshman in a general class. This was a summer interns in a hard science. The responses to the post were essentially "yeah they only know how to search for files."

I really started using computers for more than gaming with windows 95, and it wasn't until college when I switched to Linux that I got serious about file directory hygiene, but even in those win95 days I knew where everything was on my computer. I fundamentally don't understand how you can use computers without understanding that.

[-] whosdadog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I still have to explain to fully grown adults where the Start menu is

[-] sauerkraus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

These days even Minecraft mods are one click to install hundreds at a time. The average person can get by with nothing more than folders on their desktop.

[-] ywein@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of students use phones and chromeOS, both of which obfuscate file system. Remember majority of gen z are still in college or school.

And even after you graduate - how many job’s actually require you to interact with the FS? In my company for example people are supplied with a laptop with everything already pre-installed. Majority of folks would just use couple of the apps they need for their job and a web browser. As for files - they just have an endless list of stuff in their downloads and desktop folders.

[-] yoshipunk123456@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Im 17

[-] bubblegoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You are leaving out all of GenX....we kind of understand tech, we built the shit you are using.

[-] Sabakodgo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Most Gen X people I know from work (developers), hate to use new stuff. For example, Slack or GIt doesn't exist for them, and use call/sms and usb/email instead. Some of them learned facebook and stayed on it.