mastodon.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

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Hypothesis: The Fediverse consists almost entirely of adults.

I expect most youths are drawn to the large corporate social networks; but those of us who took the effort to come here have likely experienced the Internet before most of those existed.

Of course, the only way to test this is by collecting data using the most scientifically rigorous method available to me: a Mastodon poll, lol

(I expect this will only reach English-speaking Fedi, but do boost if you're able)

⬇️ What is your age? ⬇️

@jsstaedtler furthering your hypothesis: Mastodon somehow appeals to users who remember usenet, and is unappealing to users who don't.

lorddimwit is now @rk@well.com

@luvcraft @jsstaedtler

…this tracks 100% with my anecdotal data, if you modify “Usenet” to include “Usenet, FidoNet, and the BBS scene,” but to be fair those are also all just proxies for being old as shit.