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?

  • tobier@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    Honestly wouldn’t mind Lemmy being a 30+ monoculture. Let the kids stay on their TikBooks and SnapFaces where they make porn or whatever else kids do these days.

      • tobier@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        Well it would be nice to have a corner of the Internet that isn’t invaded by teenage desperately attention seeking social media drones.

    • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I kinda hate how my peers have ruined the image of the youth. Now older people look at me and they’re thinking: This damn kid probably watch braindead TikTok content all day

      • tobier@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’ve lost all hope for young people when most of the “proposed” content on Facebook or similar are either: young people making softcore porn videos, or young people miming to songs.