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Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds? (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago by gamer@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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?

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[-] Lemmylefty@vlemmy.net 587 points 11 months ago

“Older” “30 years or more”

HEY

[-] Ciaocibai@lemmy.world 152 points 11 months ago

Yeah I’m in this comment and I’m not sure I like it.

But it does take me back to the shift from Digg to Reddit. My Reddit account (16+years) was older than so many users on the site. Nuts to think about it. The vibe changed massively over the years.

[-] teamster@lemmy.world 49 points 11 months ago

Seconding everything in this comment. I jumped from digg to reddit during the HDKEY scandal, so 16+ years as well. I remember feeling unsettled as Reddit moved into the eternal September of the later years

[-] cerevant@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

I jumped Slashdot for Digg, so uh...yeah :)

[-] TomFrost@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

I jumped Fark for Slashdot :(

[-] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

someone put this into the skeleton knocking on doors meme

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 11 months ago

Stop making us feel older than old

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Sprinkle in some MetaFilter.

[-] Woozy@dmv.social 1 points 9 months ago

I too remember the September effect. It demonstrates that we are similarly decrepid.

[-] teh_bishop@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Fellow 16yr Redditor! Agreed with how it changed and become pretty meh.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

🤣🤣🤣. Right?! Over 50. Not a tech nerd.

[-] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 11 months ago

Haha for real. My internal monologue: "Wait, 'older'? Aren't most of us in our 30s to early 40s? .....oh"

[-] jawbrakelong@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Came in to post something to this effect, you did it better than had planned out in my mind. Danke schön!

[-] SgtSilverLining@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

I'm almost 30, and the youngest on my work team. When I mentioned I was going to be old at 30, they practically started a riot!

[-] LordXenu@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I turn 30 later this year. All of the sudden everything hurts.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 11 months ago

Oh boy have I got news for you for the next two big round numbers

this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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