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Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, that's totally me! But I can't tell you why it is so appealing to my demographic. I don't know anyone IRL here and nothing about it seems like it would scare off everyone else...

BUT while we are all here:

Trapper Keepers
Garbage Pail Kids
Music on cassette tapes
Vim > Emacs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Vim is the best editor for editing directly on the server, but you really shouldn't be editing directly on the server.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Then you'll really like to hear that not only do I edit the file with vim on the production server, but I did it as root after a "sudo su"... and then I committed the change from prod.. with svn.. only so that I could bring my dev environment up to speed with what is now in production with an svn update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What if I like living dangerously?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Eh, have you tried micro? It's neat!