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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[–] randomdude567@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] drnfc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fediverse is mostly full of FOSS enthusiasts, which happens to heavily include linux users.

That's what attracted me to the fediverse in the first place, all the linux people.

The old people are people who grew up before Facebook and corporate social media, as such have no loyalty to said platforms.

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[–] user001@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Lifetrip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I fit those ... You must be right.

[–] LordShrek@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

27yo tech enthusiast and worker and linux user here

[–] lukewarm_tauntaun@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, and I'm loving it.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Young people don't even understand that the internet isn't only the 5 websites that have existed since before they were born lol

That's probably a big part of it. We kind of designed the internet to become an information super oligarchy, even if it wasn't intentional.

I'm 33 for the record so I guess I'm an older tech nerd. Nice. 😎

[–] bighi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It does, yes.

And since lots of people in the Fediverse support blocking popular competitors, like people in Mastodon talking about blocking/unfederating Threads, I'd say we're making sure the Fediverse stays in obscurity forever. Never having a chance to become popular, never having a chance to convince people to leave proprietary platforms.

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[–] aessedai@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I've just blocked the linux communities. I quite liked Linux when I still had reason to use it, but it's just not something I care to see so frequently when scrolling the FP. Just keep blocking the /c/ you don't want and eventually you'll have a curated list of posts you want to see. But maybe i'm just old, ya young bastard. :p

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's also used by loads of tankies

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[–] THEMASTERMIND@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

Because ipad kids are happy with instagram,tiktok and other shit and doesn't give a fuck about privacy.

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 3 points 6 months ago

Perhaps it's because people under 30 have no sense of responsibility so don't really care to communicate much with peers. They don't have the means to bring systems like this online. They don't have the historical perspective to take part in intelligent conversation, so they have Twitter and Facebook.

[–] potkulautapaprika@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Yes.

[–] Yaztromo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I started back in the Wild West BBS days on the 80s; graduated to USENET in the 90s, website forums in the Web 1.0 days, /., Reddit, and now Lemmy. Yeah, I’ve been around. Been “Yaztromo” all that time too.

I don’t mind that “Eternal September” hasn’t infected this space yet — that’s a feature, not a bug!

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