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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50 points

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

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

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I jumped Fark for Slashdot :(

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someone put this into the skeleton knocking on doors meme

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Stop making us feel older than old

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Sprinkle in some MetaFilter.

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

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