According to this poll, fediverse definitely skews older. There's some sample bias for whoever is in this guy's circles, but I think it's relatively valid.

https://mastodon.art/@jsstaedtler/110668308409683502

30 years old or older
I'm 23

Yes. Like you said, it's not a bad thing, but I do miss the energy younger people bring.

Completely agree, and I fit all three on the list. While a lot of new users have come in recently, the fediverse isn't as mainstream as the centralized services that everyone knows about. Also, young people will sign up for services they're friends are on.

Who else would know about a new type of social media tech that hasn't existed before?

who else would use decentralized threaded forums

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

No. (Yes)

Funny observation, but admittedly I fit 100%

I've seen people post about "understanding" Lemmy and the fediverse, and "figurring out" how it works, although it seems pretty straightforward. If this is a barrier for some people, preventing them from joining, I think that might be a benefit.

I've seen statistics saying the dominant age group on reddit is around 13 years. I don't mind teenagers participating, that's good. But they shouldn't dominate, if they do it becomes to much like a "follow me, I'm blind too." community.

It seems to me the debates here are better than on reddit. I hope we don't lose that.

Joke's on you, I use Linux.

You're probably describing Nostr's userbase, not Lemmy :P