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?
I beat genders are not represented equally either 🙂
Female. I’m happy here. Tried to get my engineer husband to switch but he won’t spend the time to set up something new. In his defense he’s a great guy, a grill master, and has recently learned to make his own doctor and dental appointments.
Ok, there is at least 1 female here - not Bad at all!
Btw, I spent surprisingly small amount of time to set up Lemmy for me. But, I’m mostly, a demographic described in the post. Except Linux, stopped using it few years ago.
It was seriously 30 minutes of searching for alternatives to r/ and 10 minutes to setup - choose an instance, make a username, make a password. Then a day or two to figure out the buttons/settings/options. I don’t understand the resistance. I did use Ubuntu on an old laptop when i broke up Microsoft for a few weeks.