The mastodon and lemmy content I’m seeing feels like 90% of it comes from people who are:
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~30 years old or older
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tech enthusiasts/workers
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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?
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.
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
I jumped Slashdot for Digg, so uh…yeah :)
I jumped Fark for Slashdot :(
someone put this into the skeleton knocking on doors meme
Stop making us feel older than old
Sprinkle in some MetaFilter.
I too remember the September effect. It demonstrates that we are similarly decrepid.
Fellow 16yr Redditor! Agreed with how it changed and become pretty meh.