Eh it’s that, or the constant droning of zaps from Nostr clients. Take your pic I guess, but those are the choices if you’re looking for something decentralized atm.

You got me on the 2nd two points

The Fediverse is still relatively "new" (in the sense that it really started gaining traction a few years ago) and the type of people you mentioned are just the first to know about it.

If we get enough support and the big problem social networks crack we'll probably get a more diverse crowd later on. I doubt the Fediverse will become mainstream but it's definitely more known now and becoming more popular.

38 year old moderately tech savvy person here, much more hardware savvy than software if that makes sense? When the whole reddit thing exploded, I concluded that I was pretty much going to stop using reddit once Boost stopped working. Then I saw someone mention Lemmy in a comment so I searched it up and here I am. I didn't know there was a reddit alternative, or a Twitter, instagram or YouTube (decentralised) alternative. Just finding out all this now. I didn't even think of centralised VS decentralised until the last few days, this is all new to me and still wrapping my head around the whole federation concept, particularly with the Meta etc. I feel like I need an ELI5 on that concept but I'm still yet to search and find if an ELI5 community exists here lol

But I think it makes sense that the demographic might be older. I don't want to shoehorn any age group into one large generalisation but I'd dare assume that under 30-40s are happy to be where their peers are? And to be clear, I'm not an instagram/twitter/tiktok user. And I only use Facebook for a side business I ran and it's marketplace.

I feel personally attacked.

Uh... Eerily accurate.

Turned 20 a few days ago.

I'm 27, though the latter two match.

3/3 for me. I feel attacked lol.

But, I'm also happy engaging with people of similar interests.

what is blud wafflin about

Hmm, idk the communities I follow are pretty "normal" though and don't really fit in any of these categories…

22 years old prospective CS student here.

a/s/l ?

It's really hard to understand some things unless you try, and I don't really feel like I want to understand how a social media application works, I have better things to do