I would be surprised if this is still true, at least for home use. It seems like the non-gamer, non-power user segment of the PC market just switched over to tablets and smartphones instead. PCs and laptops just aren’t really necessary anymore for “normal” people who just want to check their email, watch YouTube, and surf the web.
Hold up, you’re eating unpeeled bananas? Just chomping through the skin and chewing everything up?
Is that actually a thing?
They’re using facial recognition on all bystanders.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/08/nx-s1-5585691/ice-facial-recognition-immigration-tracking-spyware
Maybe part of why Lemmy skews older is because this is basically what “old” Reddit felt like.
Before Reddit became the Walmart of internet forums that put all the little guys out of business and gained enough critical mass to have a niche community for every topic under the sun, it was just a quirky place that catered towards tech, politics, and this exact sort of “general everyday discussion” you’re talking about.
I loved that era of Reddit, and I love that Lemmy is providing something that’s close to that experience.
I honestly consider that to be a feature, not a bug.
Reddit, Facebook, Twitter etc. all started out great, then grew so large that they lost all their magic.
Why should we try to speed run that process with the Fediverse?
Seems like everyone is getting the 1% confused with billionaires. The average 1%er is something like a doctor or a plumber that owns his own business, not the assholes floating around on superyachts.
Were you in a coma for the last 10 years? Because it seems like you missed the part where this already came to pass many years ago.