Every new technology is first used by this kind of people (not sure about the age), it is for now just to us to extend the area covered by various communities to non-techie areas. I hope to start with participating in !fanfiction@lemmy.ml and !hpfanfiction@lemmy.world which are hopefully far enough from the usual techie crowd.
Actually, this is not necessarily true. Because it is open source doesn’t mean it cannot be commercial. I can happily imagine that with the future rise of spam, porn, and other nasties, I would happily pay small amount of money for well moderated, clean experience.
Don’t like it, don’t read it. The price of freedom is that it is freedom for everybody even for those you (or I) don’t think should be free.
Plenty of camaraderie, suggestions and wild discussions on /r/HPFanfiction
Yes, this made me to seriously work on switching to Lemmy.
Remember MySpace?
Yes, I am afraid we can expect a lot of “It is not Linux, but GNU/Linux” type of arguments. Sorry about that.