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?

  • SkyNTPEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I guess people forgot how the internet itself used to be a “monoculture” of nerds and weirdos. Weirdos and nerds have been making the cool trendy places that the mainstream first shuns and mocks then flocks to (maybe “ironically” at first) for centuries. Maybe even millenia.

    • sauerkraus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s a bit self-selective. “Trying something unfamiliar” is roughly synonymous with “learning”. And people who treat learning as a hobby tend to share a vibe as they say.

    • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I missed how decentralized early internet was. When the we got to the point that there were only a handful of places people went to it changed how people interacted with the internet.