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Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by 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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[–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Most people didn’t use the internet when the first iPhone came out either. That shit was slow and unusable at the time, and locked to AT&T.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This thread is a couple months old at this point but I figured I'd reply anyway.

    Maybe you had a different experience but I experienced this transition in middle/high school in west MI. The first Gen iPhone released in 2007. 3G was widespread and while that might be considered slow these days, it was state of the art speed at the time, so it wasn't considered "slow and unusable".

    In 2007, kids my age didn't have much tech beyond an iPod or MP3 player. By 2009, almost everyone had a smartphone. That was a huge leap in internet accessibility.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I know I'm replying to a two year old comment, but who cares.

    I've had a Motorola Milestone (Motorola Droid in the US) in 2009 and I got an internet enabled plan immediately.

    It was very expensive and capped at 200 Megabytes per month, so I only really used it for basic web browsing. Fucking loved that phone, though. I played through a few GBA games on an emulator, with the keyboard it worked great.

    I've had spotify back then, but I never streamed anything, because of the data cap.

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