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?
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
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“Older” “30 years or more”
HEY
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!
I turn 30 later this year. All of the sudden everything hurts.
Oh boy have I got news for you for the next two big round numbers
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.
Fellow 16yr Redditor! Agreed with how it changed and become pretty meh.
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 :(
Sprinkle in some MetaFilter.
someone put this into the skeleton knocking on doors meme
Stop making us feel older than old
🤣🤣🤣. Right?! Over 50. Not a tech nerd.
Came in to post something to this effect, you did it better than had planned out in my mind. Danke schön!
Haha for real. My internal monologue: “Wait, ‘older’? Aren’t most of us in our 30s to early 40s? …oh”