First of all, can people stop empowering, rewarding and encouraging spammers by starting threads about them?

My understanding is that many people in the US and Canada identify with their ancestry? Lots of Americans think of themselves as “Irish” for example, some of them may actually be immigrants from Ireland, others may have more-or-less distant Irish ancestry, so this is what may be going on here.

What part of the fediverse is “hard” to use?

Lemmy is easier to use than the UBB forum I started to become active on at the age of 10 that was the entry point for me being on the Internet at all. Back then we didn’t have Markdown, but BBCode, and I had that figured out after a few weeks.

I think you’re way underestimating young people.