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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[–] corb3t@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After dabbling with Mastodon twitter clones for a few months, Lemmy seems so much easier to understand and get up and running and feeling like you're part of a more active community than Mastodon was for me. I can pretty much tell anybody to go sign up from lemmy.world from a computer and they can figure it out for the most part.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Onboarding is rougher with Mastodon because it takes active effort to find people to follow and get people to follow you. Lemmy puts posts from a bunch of communities right in front of you.

[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 1 points 1 year ago

True. But at least the main Mastadon app has a little tutorial to help you pick a server. Maybe Lemmy needs one like that. Or we can just tell people to go to Lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works or our own small instance like I have.