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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[–] trollercoaster@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not surprised, as using it pretty much requires requires some premeditation, you have to pick an instance to register with just to get started. IMO, that's a very low hurdle, and I see the root of the perceived problem less in using the fediverse being too complicated, but in internet users becoming increasingly uneducated due to every large operator of internet services and smartphone OS manufacturer dumbing down everything to the point where actually thinking about what you're doing isn't required anymore. Thanks to this, to many internet users these days, many web services they interact with aren't a service on the internet, but an app on their phone.

I know the internet from before social media like we know them today became a thing, in comparison, anything fediverse is way easier to use than the plethora of separate services (forums, wikis, dozens of different chat services, some, most notably, IRC, with thousands of different servers) that were the norm in the past.

I don't see that so slightly higher hurdle for entering the fediverse as a problem, I don't necessarily want to interact with the kind of people who are too dumb to even figure out how to register an account on a web service.

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