Several weeks into the #TwitterMigration it seems clear to me the value of Mastodon is not that it is a Twitter replacement, but that it is a gateway technology to decentralization. Mastodon has flaws, I'm not claiming it's perfect, but many criticisms I've seen stem from expecting centralized services from a decentralized structure. It's up to us to try and explain the differences and set expectations for what alternative services can look like.
To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.
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@mcneely 28 checking in. A friend (same age) asked me today if I was using BeReal, to which I answered "no, I'm trying to get into Mastodont". Her response was "okay boomer".
I think it's an old platform indeed.
Not sure it's a bad thing though. Mastodon seems to have the same age distribution any other social network has when it's getting ready to die, but unlike other networks Mastodon is designed for this.
