https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/data/lemmy/users

Here’s the source. I don’t have access.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03833-8

I don’t know about the gambling but I do know they are struggling in many aspects of life ex. Education/financial

It’s possible the next few generations will see the failures of the previous generations and learn from them.

Which will hopefully lead them to spaces that give them back their agency like the Fediverse.

When Myspace, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Digg, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok etc. became popular it was because the young crowd 15-25 year olds made it that way.

You want the Fediverse to grow? You’ll need young people to do it.