Fediverse

Yes. Especially on Mastodon, a poll showed nearly half of the site was above 40 and 3 percent were under 18. Most of the content is people talking about the site itself, especially on lemmy. I've felt pretty isolated as a minor on the sites.

*looks at self*:

• 40
• nerd
• chief amongst my nerddoms being tech

I feel both insulted and understood at the same time

im 16. probably in the 0.1% of fediverse users. i dont really use mastodon though, too boring for me

I'm actually quite a bit younger than that. I was very much into stocks but got scammed in the GME fiasco when they disabled the buy button and got into Monero (at least I know beforehand that crypto is manipulated as fuck). Monero lead to FOSS and now I run a xmr node, i2p node, lemmy instance, selfhost cool stuff, etc. I learned a lot of stuff this way.

I do not think that it is complicated to join or use.

But many do not care about privacy and centralization and hence will not leave mainstream platforms. Also the network effect is strong.

I feel seen by this post.

Have you not seen the hundreds of nsfw and furry categories created immediately upon accessing the fediverse? I don't think tech nerds over 30 are the lion's share of adopters. It's the fucking weird and critically horny.

My 15 yo ass

Not yet 30 and can't be bothered with Linux on desktop

Yes, and I'm loving it.

I just joined lemmy and I am 20 and I am liking it here

"Only" the first two apply to me as I blasphemously love Windows, but I somewhat agree with your observation.