I'm glad to be here with the rest of you old fogeys
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Me in my 40s
Yeah, this doesn’t make me feel like the Fediverse is full of olds at all. Im old enough to be the average user’s parent.
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Why do you suppose this is? Are we just the only generation with the minimal tech skills needed to sign up?
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Why do you suppose this is? Are we just the only generation with the minimal tech skills needed to sign up?
Probably less about skill, per se, and more about interest. But the (still very low) barrier to entry probably does weed out a few kids.
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Give them a break. Grandpa doesn't understand memes.
CAN YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS WRITE A LITTLE BIGGER?
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I thought I should feel old because everyone else is 20, but here the 20 year old is old and the meme was made by someone below 20????
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Probably less about skill, per se, and more about interest. But the (still very low) barrier to entry probably does weed out a few kids.
Why would our age group be the only ones interested?
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I thought I should feel old because everyone else is 20, but here the 20 year old is old and the meme was made by someone below 20????
Nah, I'm 30. It's just a relief to be on a community where the majority of the commenters aren't literal children.
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above 50 here.
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Why would our age group be the only ones interested?
A longing for the Good Old Days(tm) of old-style forums and pre-enshittification Reddit?
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Why would our age group be the only ones interested?
I found a torrent on the piracy com where I can download episodes of Matlock and NCIS.
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A longing for the Good Old Days(tm) of old-style forums and pre-enshittification Reddit?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Certainly my case. But most of the enshitification of Reddit happened just in the last few years, max decade. You'd think we'd at least have some 20 and 30 somethings.
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Week 1 feels like a ghost town. Week 2 feels like old old Reddit. Week 3 feels like old Reddit. I'm content and there is content.
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Probably less about skill, per se, and more about interest. But the (still very low) barrier to entry probably does weed out a few kids.
Yeah, I mean I wasn't there for old reddit and I am only on lemmy because of the reddit protests, but I couldn't see any of my classmates using anything that's on the fediverse.
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Why do you suppose this is? Are we just the only generation with the minimal tech skills needed to sign up?
Because we say shit like "why do you suppose this is"
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Older average age is a feature, not a bug. I hope fedi keeps out the under 40s
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Older average age is a feature, not a bug. I hope fedi keeps out the under 40s
You hate us under 40s so much?
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You hate us under 40s so much?
I don't. Ignore that nonsense.
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Why do you suppose this is? Are we just the only generation with the minimal tech skills needed to sign up?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I doubt it. People don't mention when they're young (except in some specific cases like this). Young people can't compare things to a time they didn't live so only older people mention their age usually. I'm 17 rn been on the fediverse since 16 or maybe 15 I don't really remember.
Edit: I personally feel actively discouraged from mentioning my age (even irl i look older) not cause of safety or anything but I js feel like I'll be treated differently when people know I'm younger. Its happened quite often to me both IRL and online where I'll notice a distinct shift in tone after they know how young I am
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Mastodon is the German nudist beach of social media. There’s a strong sense of camaraderie, but the average age is somewhere north of 50, and people under 40 instinctively cringe when they hear about it.
