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?

    • @[email protected]English
      152•1 year ago

      Yeah I’m in this comment and I’m not sure I like it.

      But it does take me back to the shift from Digg to Reddit. My Reddit account (16+years) was older than so many users on the site. Nuts to think about it. The vibe changed massively over the years.

      • @[email protected]English
        48•1 year ago

        Seconding everything in this comment. I jumped from digg to reddit during the HDKEY scandal, so 16+ years as well. I remember feeling unsettled as Reddit moved into the eternal September of the later years

      • BishopEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Fellow 16yr Redditor! Agreed with how it changed and become pretty meh.

    • @[email protected]English
      29•1 year ago

      Haha for real. My internal monologue: “Wait, ‘older’? Aren’t most of us in our 30s to early 40s? …oh”

    • DraedarkEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Came in to post something to this effect, you did it better than had planned out in my mind. Danke schön!

    • ✨Abigail Watson✨English
      5•1 year ago

      I’m almost 30, and the youngest on my work team. When I mentioned I was going to be old at 30, they practically started a riot!