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?

  • pythoneer@programming.devEnglish
    47·
    1 year ago

    In reddit’s early days, it was exactly like this. I remember that it felt like a Linux user forum, but with some conspiracy theorists. I actually feel that lemmy is a little more diverse than that.

    • anticommon@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      My first interaction with reddit was to explain how ballistics work in a BF subreddit.

      Man who knew how much time that comment cost me in my life.