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submitted 1 year ago by gamer@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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.

[-] 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.

[-] legion02@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's almost like the shit we learned when we learned this shit is the shit we tend to know our whole lives. Shit.

this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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