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?

  • dr_doomscroller@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    1 year ago

    sure. but i also can’t help but feel like when history looks back on the fediverse it’s more likely to be in the geocities and anglefire category than some seismic shift in social media.

    I hope for the later, but realistically feel it will be the former.

    • taj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Eh, idk about that. Matrix has been around for a few years now, and I don’t think it’s going anywhere. Now, is it likely to ever be as big as Twitter/Facebook/reddit? Probably not. But, I’m not sure that was ever really the goal either.