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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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[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Am I too young? My age is 19-22. Oh now I think about it, there is no teenagers community. I feel old for being here.

As for tech enthusiast, maybe. I'm always impressed with open source software, but I don't understand coding.

Linux user? Well I played around with Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Tails, but at the end of the day, I still switched back to Windows just because how much they've dominated the world. It's hard to find programs for linux, especially games. Wine doesn't always work, Virtual Machine is just too much of performance degregation. Maybe Linux isn't meant for me.

What's keeping young people away is kids these days just like to use things that are already popular. iPhones, Nikes, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube. None of my classmates from high school know what Linux is, know about the Snowden leaks, think iPhones are the best because everyone else is using them (I'll admit, I fell victim to peer pressure and got an iPhone, but now I switched back to a Galaxy so I can install apps without a corporation approving it, and I gave the phone to family.), wants 200 dollar shoes, constantly on mainstream social media in class, disrespect teachers even the nice ones. I mean kids these days just don't care, they want to have fun with minimal effort, they aren't gonna spend 5 minutes to try to understand the fediverse.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah kids today are everything the grownups complained about when I was a kid. ;)

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure how old your experience with Linux is, but gaming is really great nowadays, thanks to Valve and Steam Deck.

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

As someone who only want to own games through DMR-free Stores, Steam really isn't an option. Performance still isn't great, mods often break, still needs a lot of manual adjustments from time to time to make a non-Linux game work. But thanks to Steam, there'll be more games support Linux. Hopefully most of them won't be steam exclusive.

this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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