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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] 3 points 1 year ago

This is pretty accurate. I was one of those that left Reddit, and started the search for something else. I went through sooo many different options, and landed here for now. I spent a large amount of time looking a Nostr clients. They could be a good option in like a couple of years. Some of those projects have good teams working on things, but they’re all just so new man. The sad part is the projects with the forsite to focus on diversified content have little funding, or terrible developers. Alternatively the project that are clean, and crisp are all Twitter clones parroting bitcoin 24/7, and acting like if they keep talking about it non stop everyone will magically come around to freedom money lol. For what it’s worth Lemmy has had some of the best diversity of content thus far, but it is not without concern for me. So I’m here for now anyways, and if things go well I’ll be here tomorrow too.