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?

  • yetanotherusername@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There are nice lists of servers, like at join lemmy and awesome lemmy instances at github. Though I will agree that going through decision making at the very beginning of the dive into the lemmy might be detracting. Even as a rather tech savvy person I did use lemmy read-only for some time, as I could not make decision which instance to choose :)

    • isto2278@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Just a sidenote, I think it’s funny that the topic of Lemmy mainly being used by tech nerds is partly explained with the barrier to entry of picking an instance, and you seem to suggest the barrier is lessened in any meaningful way by a list on Github of all things.