I’ve been online since early 1990s and this is my repeated empirical experience that communities with a technical entry threshold self-select for technical users initially.
Most social network users are already hopelessly confused by the concept of federation and need to pick up an instance.
Meanwhile lemmy appears to self select Linux users
Is there any instance that has a poll for Linux questions for the registration yet? If there isn’t I would be surprised.
Early adopters and technical users are more likely to be free/libre users.
I assume this is your opinion, but you present it as a scientifically proven fact.
I’ve been online since early 1990s and this is my repeated empirical experience that communities with a technical entry threshold self-select for technical users initially.
Most social network users are already hopelessly confused by the concept of federation and need to pick up an instance.
Are you suggesting this is some kind of modern usenet?
I assume they’re just making more noise.
That’s because our fans are going full speed because of bad Linux drivers. We have to be loud to hear ourselves over them.