I was thinking a bit about what he said about younger people, and their online habits. There are few, (afaik), younger people here on Micro.Blog. Not that this necessarily is a problem, but an observation nonetheless. Hope The Summer of Blogging campaign goes well.

It was great and not what I expected at all. It’s really great to have thoughtful discussion and to be intentional in how a community and a service is constructed and how it works.

Here we have deep respect for you and you have a deep respect for us.

@bitdepth Thank you!

@odd Yeah, I’m sure part of the problem is the $5, but I think there’s more we can do.

@mejh Time zones are always a challenge. Most of tomorrow’s sessions are prerecorded so those videos will go up right away after we stream them.

@mejh @jean Tried to join in today from Australia, but fell back asleep as it was 4am in the morning. Was good to at least hear part of the interview with Om Malik. Looking forward to seeing the videos.

@AndyNicolaides Yes, I'm going to edit the keynote and put it up as its own video.

@odd it’s a good observation … watching the zoom yesterday I asked myself … my generation is very well represented … but where are all the young people?

@JohnPhilpin @odd maybe it’s not a place for young(er) people. Does it have to be?

@pratik No, of course not. And getting new paying customers could be 35-80 yo’s of course.

@odd Less about paying than about the vibe.

@pratik Yes. They won’t be customers for as long maybe, but they might be even more loyal customers.

@odd And if Manton is fine with that size and the audience type then it’s up to us to decide whether we want to hang out here.

@pratik Yes, for Manton’s sake , I hope there will be a influx of new paying customers, but personally I’m quite happy about how it is.

@pratik it certainly does not … but (you knew it was doing didn’t you?) but … where are they, what are they doing, what apps are they using … not tic tic and the rest of the centralized social media spaces … but the distributed ones … if this is the future … shouldn’t younger people be actively involved, using, influencing?

I’ve observed similarly around the identity .. ‘DIDs’ et al … it’s the older side of humanity that seems to be shaping the conversation.

So is it all for nought, because when we are gone … nobody will care OR are there other places being developed that I don’t know about (likely .. it is well documented that I live under a rock).

// @odd

@Jeber - just noticed your comment about us oldies - the end of this thread might resonate.

@odd back to the eternal question of how many $60 annual subscriptions does it take to make it possible to add one more staff member.

@JohnPhilpin Yes.