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?

  • terny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1041·
    1 year ago

    Gen X and Millennials are the only ones that really needed to go through the early stages of operating systems. Having to get anything done required you to learn a lot.

    • cryomancer20x6@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      34·
      1 year ago

      Nothing says older millennial quite like having to learn how to edit config.sys with no help from the internet in order to get the sound working for a game that came in a shareware collection.

    • TheWoozy@dmv.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Gen X and Millennials are the only ones that really needed to go through the early stages of operating systems

      Yeah, we boomers didn’t have to learn them because we frickin invented them.

      Down votes INCOMING!!!