I'm glad to be here with the rest of you old fogeys
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The young want to be near the popular crowd and the popular ones want to be where the crowd is. Classic network effect. Once you get older, that need to be in the middle of the noise and excitement goes away for many and you look for the more quiet comfortable places.
im just here cause its not an invasion of privacy and tgere are way less fascists here
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Older average age is a feature, not a bug. I hope fedi keeps out the under 40s
You sound delightful
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age: 21
hairline:31
physical age:101mental age: 5
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Me as Gen Z trying to get all my Gen Z friends to join Lemmy, not very successfully. Though to be fair, I’m basically as old as you can be and still be Gen Z.
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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?
Alright smarty pants. Let’s hear about some of your “minimal tech skills”.
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Alright smarty pants. Let’s hear about some of your “minimal tech skills”.
I can open Word without blaming someone else for moving the shortcut!
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I can open Word without blaming someone else for moving the shortcut!
What’s Word? /s
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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
I'm happy there are at least some young people here.
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Alright smarty pants. Let’s hear about some of your “minimal tech skills”.
Well I studied CS, was a Unix sysadmin for a few years, then a consultant for a enterprise software company. But I've been in sales for 20 years, so that should count equally against me, although I do still have some linux servers at home. I'm probably still a bit overqualified for the task of signing up to the fediverse.
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age: 21
hairline:31
physical age:101pot belly: 45
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Me as Gen Z trying to get all my Gen Z friends to join Lemmy, not very successfully. Though to be fair, I’m basically as old as you can be and still be Gen Z.
My introduction is subtle. I text content to people. When they ask me where I get it (it's happened twice so far), I say Lemmy. They say, "what's that." Gives me an opportunity to explain the similarities and differences with (advantages over) Reddit. No takers yet, but it's coming.
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Feels good.
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I can open Word without blaming someone else for moving the shortcut!
Overqualified for most office jobs.
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You hate us under 40s so much?
wrote last edited by [email protected]some people don't age gracefully
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My introduction is subtle. I text content to people. When they ask me where I get it (it's happened twice so far), I say Lemmy. They say, "what's that." Gives me an opportunity to explain the similarities and differences with (advantages over) Reddit. No takers yet, but it's coming.
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No takers yet, but it's coming.
I literally have explained the open protocols for social sharing that were released years ago. I tried to tell them that nobody can track you. And the ads they see don't go to corps but literally no buy in from my friends and family. My sister has a blue sky account and I told her she was part if the Masterdon/Lemmy federation. She just thinks blue sky is a better twitter, for now.
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No takers yet, but it's coming.
I literally have explained the open protocols for social sharing that were released years ago. I tried to tell them that nobody can track you. And the ads they see don't go to corps but literally no buy in from my friends and family. My sister has a blue sky account and I told her she was part if the Masterdon/Lemmy federation. She just thinks blue sky is a better twitter, for now.
Bluesky uses a different protocol to mastodon.
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Me, as a Gen X, just keeping under the radar...
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My introduction is subtle. I text content to people. When they ask me where I get it (it's happened twice so far), I say Lemmy. They say, "what's that." Gives me an opportunity to explain the similarities and differences with (advantages over) Reddit. No takers yet, but it's coming.
On Reddit there’s a lot of “lemmy’s too complicated to be adopted by the general public”. Ik we don’t all have the same tech literacy but it doesn’t seem that complicated, like, do you understand emailing? Then you understand most of what lemmy is… (also you don’t even have to understand the intricacies to enjoy your experience there)
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pot belly: 45
nah its at 35, I have still ways to grow
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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.
Watch out! At this rate it’ll feel like enshttfied Reddit by week 5
