@tlsmith63@toot.community Im not *that* surprised considering a large part of the influx is academics and journalists. Not exactly groups that skew young.
@mcneely @Htaggert @tlsmith63 It’s people who had access to Usenet and other tools that worked on similar logic to the Fediverse so the learning curve is flatter. The barrier for entry is a lot higher than it was for Twitter.
@randimason @mcneely @Htaggert @tlsmith63
If you remember Usenet from your 20's, before it was relentlessly spammed (and pre-Facebook, pre-Twitter), Mastodon likely makes a lot of sense to you, and you are likely in the 41-60 (or better) age group. (As am I.)
@cfclark @randimason @mcneely @tlsmith63 I really don’t! I remember computers coming into vogue in grad school - but no one owned one and we all had to go to a computer lab to type papers… it was such a social hub…
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@Htaggert @cfclark @randimason @mcneely @tlsmith63 They still must need computer labs, right?! Probably for special purposes.
@mcneely @tlsmith63 well all academics and journos were once young academics and Journos… right?