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?

  • SisuAika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    1 year ago

    I don’t want to stereotype anyone, but in my own social experience, younger groups don’t give a shit about corporate monopolies or privacy, they just want things to work fast and automatically (ex: TikTok). And those I know in older brackets are still on Facebook and complaining that they don’t want to deal with change because their family/business/workflow would be affected.

    I happen to be 38, a linux user, and a gamer. And I concur that my age-group has just always seemed to be more open to new technologies for some reason.

    • HolyDriver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Not just older/younger groups. There are plenty my age (mid 30) that don’t care or have a clue about tech+privacy. The local nursery post totally public photos of the kids to the internet… yeahhh no I opted out of that and I felt the weirdo. It’s not even like I’m tinfoil or anything

    • MercuryUprising@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      I think younger people don’t give a shit about privacy because they grew up in a post 9/11 surveillance world. Facebook, Instagram and the internet at large became a giant surveillance machine and they’ve never known another possibility, so it’s normalized to them.

    • razza856@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      We came of age having to figure out early Windows OSs, write html for our MySpace pages and playing games that were surrounded by active mod cultures.

      I don’t think that’s the case for todays young uns