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.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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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.
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Yeah….. :/
Who else would know about a new type of social media tech that hasn't existed before?
Teenagers somehow.
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.
could be, I am not complaining.
Turned 20 a few days ago.
38 year old moderately tech savvy person here, much more hardware savvy than software if that makes sense? When the whole reddit thing exploded, I concluded that I was pretty much going to stop using reddit once Boost stopped working. Then I saw someone mention Lemmy in a comment so I searched it up and here I am. I didn't know there was a reddit alternative, or a Twitter, instagram or YouTube (decentralised) alternative. Just finding out all this now. I didn't even think of centralised VS decentralised until the last few days, this is all new to me and still wrapping my head around the whole federation concept, particularly with the Meta etc. I feel like I need an ELI5 on that concept but I'm still yet to search and find if an ELI5 community exists here lol
But I think it makes sense that the demographic might be older. I don't want to shoehorn any age group into one large generalisation but I'd dare assume that under 30-40s are happy to be where their peers are? And to be clear, I'm not an instagram/twitter/tiktok user. And I only use Facebook for a side business I ran and it's marketplace.
Hey btw Boost is coming to lemmy also!
Eh it’s that, or the constant droning of zaps from Nostr clients. Take your pic I guess, but those are the choices if you’re looking for something decentralized atm.