I’m 3 out of 3. Sorry I don’t have a good answer for you.

My unfounded guess is that this demographic has seen the internet at it’s beginings and is more willing to put up with the lack of bling and willing to discover/ build things from the ground up, just like the Forums of the Old in the mythological era were done. No corporations, no low effort rewards, no likes/ karma/ whatever. You have to actually get involved for lemmy to live.

Not EXCLUSIVELY… but kinda, but even though I’m only 1 (or maybe 2) out of the 3, and a bunch of programming jokes and jargon go over my head, I really don’t mind. And… if you’re going to start with a particular demographic as a core userbase, man oh man could you do worse these days.

I’m over 30, but I’m tech stupid compared to everyone else here, but I can follow, and understand the jist ftmp of the conversation. Not my area of expertise. I grown up with the internet though obviously so I do know my way around.

If anything i’m probably just more open to new experiences than the average person, and I like learning stuff.

But in general I agree with your observations, and it seems natural for early adopters of a platform.

Yep, that’s definitely me…

I think it’s really more about being an “early adopter” to something rather than following the mainstream. Tech enthusiasts tend to have more patience with minor inconveniences that come along with new technologies.

The average users will show up when their friends start using it and talk about it more. I still have people in my everyday life that don’t understand and don’t use Reddit, no chance they’ve even heard of the fediverse.

-under 30 -was a tech enthusiast -currently i am not using gnu but i was

Yes, but that’s pretty much the early adopter demographic across all tech. I would love for people to realize this and start talking about their other hobbies, not just how they run Lemmy on a toaster and are so radical.

None of the above!

For everything except the memes I agree. The memes are clearly not generated by 30+ year olds though, and there are a lot of memes. (all of those 196 communities)

21 year old windows/android using student (engineering, so not really tech) here, so no i guess.

27yo tech enthusiast and worker and linux user here

I mostly fit that description. While I understand what you’re saying, we all have other interests on top of this. That’s what makes it diverse.

Personally, I feel like a more mature audience is needed. I have never liked the feel of places like Facebook, tiktok, etc. Let me have one place where I can pretend the world isn’t overrun with stupidity. There is actual conversation on topics to be had, and people aren’t jerks to others for no reason.

The fediverse is somewhat complicated to understand. Maybe like usenet or other such places.

I’m not that old! I’m still a linux user and tech enthusiast though, so you’re not that off.

I think that might be because most people who go through the hurdles of setting up an account and figuring out the entire frediverse are people who are much more interested in the tech and it’s applications rather than your average social media consumer who can just get all they want in a single location with a easy to understand concept

Hmm, idk the communities I follow are pretty “normal” though and don’t really fit in any of these categories…

Quite fine by me, to be honest. I was tired of all the pokemon memes and references, as well as gamespeak everywhere (like “10+ XP, hurr hurr!”)