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Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds? (lemm.ee)

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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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[–] drunnells 3 points 1 year ago

Then you'll really like to hear that not only do I edit the file with vim on the production server, but I did it as root after a "sudo su"... and then I committed the change from prod.. with svn.. only so that I could bring my dev environment up to speed with what is now in production with an svn update.