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?

  • KevonLooneyEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is a problem for potential growth.

    And? That’s good. Facebook grew originally by being exclusive. You had to be in college, and in a particular college. Lots of things grow by invite only.

    People love exclusivity, even if there is no reason for it. Apple maintains exclusivity through cost, for basically the same hardware. As long as instances have more than like 500 users, they will be fine.

    Lemmy already has growing pains. Why would you want to make them bigger? Let the owners grow their instances at their own pace.