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?
Oh man, that’s totally me! But I can’t tell you why it is so appealing to my demographic. I don’t know anyone IRL here and nothing about it seems like it would scare off everyone else…
Then you’ll really like to hear that not only do I edit the file with vim on the production server, but I did it as root after a “sudo su”… and then I committed the change from prod… with svn… only so that I could bring my dev environment up to speed with what is now in production with an svn update.
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Oh man, that’s totally me! But I can’t tell you why it is so appealing to my demographic. I don’t know anyone IRL here and nothing about it seems like it would scare off everyone else…
BUT while we are all here:
Vim is the best editor for editing directly on the server, but you really shouldn’t be editing directly on the server.
What if I like living dangerously?
Then you’ll really like to hear that not only do I edit the file with vim on the production server, but I did it as root after a “sudo su”… and then I committed the change from prod… with svn… only so that I could bring my dev environment up to speed with what is now in production with an svn update.
Eh, have you tried micro? It’s neat!