Who else would know about a new type of social media tech that hasn't existed before?
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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Teenagers somehow.
I feel personally attacked...!
as a young IT with friends who dont know much about IT i have to say that most around 20 use reddit, instagram, ... cause its the only thing they know. everyone they know uses them and many of them want likes, ...
if they would join the fediverse:
- they wouldnt understand how it works. what is a server? why choose an instance? its just too complicated
- all their friends dont use the fediverse. they would be alone and have nobody who they can share things to
- they would mostly see tech stuff and less in categories they are interested in
- none of the people they follow on instagram are here. the cant follow their celebrities, ... and see their content
- the fediverse still has to less users to be successful worldwide. its growing. and just like facebook in its first years, its growing slow.
=> give it a few more years and get your friends, family & collegues on here and see the fediverse grow
I think that tends to be the starting point, but the user base is expanding quickly and is becoming way more diverse. There are already plenty of users who don't fit in that category, and I suspect it will continue to grow.
I fit none of your 3 categories! But I would say with the slightly less convenient joining process compared to most social media, the Fediverse is going to have to built up by people willing to take that burden, at least at first
Well it's new open source tech that can be self hosted by the 30+ tech nerds that have the money and interest in it.
I gall into most of those categories.
That said, I still have a hard time dropping reddit until a network effect happens here or the multi-feddit stuff can start combining same-named subs across the fediverse.
I spent most of my time on Reddit looking at: various sports,cooking, finance (pf, investing, bogleheads), IT (sysadmin, vmware, homelab), gaming (console and PC and specific game subs), and PC hardware subs. (Plus some for sale places).
I wasn't really one to do much OC, but would participate in comment threads fairly often. I think lemmy/fed has potential, but it's going to need to be simpler for the average person to get logged in and just see the content they want with out jumping through a bunch of searches and hoops.
23 year old Nix user...
Check. Check. And check.
"Only" the first two apply to me as I blasphemously love Windows, but I somewhat agree with your observation.
No. (Yes)
Almost got me!