The mastodon and lemmy content I’m seeing feels like 90% of it comes from people who are:
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~30 years old or older
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tech enthusiasts/workers
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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?
Does it? Would it not be possible for a minimal global account system to exist, which ONLY handles logging in and identity? Any user-related data could still exist in instances, not centralized.
I am pretty new to this type of system so maybe I am wrong but it does seem like both the biggest barrier to wider adoption and rather solvable: in current terms, imagine if the “login” instance had no communities, only account log in, while other instances have no log in, but integrate the “central” one. In case decentralization is wanted, I think it’d be possible to have multiple “login” type instances exist in a consensus, at which point problems and solutions start looking similar to cryptocurrency, but without the need to deal with “currency” or any of those ethical landmines - it’d just need to do the task of multiple instances agreeing to dataset of existing users.
Does it make sense to fave one central e-mail account management server? Email is a federated system, though it’s becoming less federated all the time.