Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

gamer@lemm.ee to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 1864 points –

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?

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I would say lemmings age are 25 to 45. People in this range are, in my experience, the most technologically educated.
Gen Z is somehow terrible with anything outside basic android/ios.

Most of my early 20's friends almost go below 'basic' phone/computer usage, it feels unbelievable sometimes

25 here. Sick and fucking tired of people calling my gen "digital natives"

Why? Would you prefer "tech indigenous"?

No, the implication is that they know everything about technology when in reality they know how to plug a phone into a wall and scroll.

I saw an old friend post a few years ago asking if anyone else's students didn't know what file directories were. And I don't mean freshman in a general class. This was a summer interns in a hard science. The responses to the post were essentially "yeah they only know how to search for files."

I really started using computers for more than gaming with windows 95, and it wasn't until college when I switched to Linux that I got serious about file directory hygiene, but even in those win95 days I knew where everything was on my computer. I fundamentally don't understand how you can use computers without understanding that.

A lot of students use phones and chromeOS, both of which obfuscate file system. Remember majority of gen z are still in college or school.

And even after you graduate - how many job’s actually require you to interact with the FS? In my company for example people are supplied with a laptop with everything already pre-installed. Majority of folks would just use couple of the apps they need for their job and a web browser. As for files - they just have an endless list of stuff in their downloads and desktop folders.

These days even Minecraft mods are one click to install hundreds at a time. The average person can get by with nothing more than folders on their desktop.

You are leaving out all of GenX....we kind of understand tech, we built the shit you are using.

Most Gen X people I know from work (developers), hate to use new stuff. For example, Slack or GIt doesn't exist for them, and use call/sms and usb/email instead. Some of them learned facebook and stayed on it.

It's almost like the shit we learned when we learned this shit is the shit we tend to know our whole lives. Shit.

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