I'm glad to be here with the rest of you old fogeys
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20 is old? Rip me then I must be a skeleton.
The whole Internet is club penguin apparently.
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Is the average age of a social media user really that young? Are very young adults and legally speaking children the driving force behind the base of social media? Are even modestly older individuals not willing to try and engage with this developing type of medium?
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Do me a favor and look up the word "ageism".
Idunno if it counts as ageism when they're talking about stupid behavior among people with minds that are factually, biologically, not finished developing. Same reason it isn't ageist to say "ten year olds are not allowed to drive cars because they aren't smart enough to do it responsibly"
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Watch out! At this rate it’ll feel like enshttfied Reddit by week 5
Are you under the opinion that Spez is going to buy out all of the mom's basements and make Lemmy have a public offer?
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Eh, don't sweat it. I'm 41, and I still find myself feeling the same way when my manager is talking.... and he's younger than me. I've been told you reach a point where you just don't care anymore but my supervisor is 52 with two grown children and says she still gets that feeling from time to time, so who knows how true it is.
Now for the "get off my lawn" portion of the reply. I can remember in 1991 my aunt was working for a legal firm and running documents around for them, they needed instant contact so they paid big bucks to have a mobile phone installed in her car. It cost a ridiculous amount per minute to talk on. One day she was talking me to McDonald's and I asked why she had a phone in her car since she couldn't plug it in, after she explained it to me I asked if I could call my dad, she said yes but make it quick. She dialed his number at work and handed me the phone. When he answered I blurted out "hi dad I'm calling from Aunt Juanita's car! Have to be quick, bye" and before she could stop me I hung up the phone.
She called him back to apologize and let him know everything was ok, then handed the phone to me so my dad could lecture me about phone etiquette and tell me to be good for Aunt Juanita.
Also I remember being excited to get to go to the school library to play Oregon trail on the green screen computer and having to swap out 5 inch floppy disks throughout the game to move to the next part.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to take some ibuprofen as all this typing is aggravating my joints. LoL.
5 1/4 inches, you heathen. I'm closing in on 50. I am beginning to understand really old people who just let the young ones talk and don't take their advice. Stuff you're supposed to be doing has changed so much, that it is tempting to just do whatever you've been doing all your life. It'll just change again, so why bother.
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i wish there was a useable german instance for the general public.
discuss.tchncs.de is great but as the name says, rather for techy people
feddit.org is borderline unusable garbage between political shit-takes (constant bickering and non-constructive arguments) and generally a very non-open mood, it feels to me.
Yeah it's hard to get people to join when you explain how instances work and then immediately follow up with "never ever use [list of instances] because they oppose democracy and want the west to nuke itself."
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Is the average age of a social media user really that young? Are very young adults and legally speaking children the driving force behind the base of social media? Are even modestly older individuals not willing to try and engage with this developing type of medium?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Kids and trendy young people are on tiktok and Instagram and do short video clip based social media.
The people who grew up with the internet being a place where you type and read things to be social, are here and places like here.
I think folk just prefer what they know, like if you grew up with loud and bright video clips being the normal way to interact online, you'd probably not want to switch over to reading and typing- which probably also feels like more effort to these people than just performing for a camera.
Same likely goes for us text based social media people but in reverse.
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The whole Internet is club penguin apparently.
The pool is closed because of AIDS
Wait that was Habbo.
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5 1/4 inches, you heathen. I'm closing in on 50. I am beginning to understand really old people who just let the young ones talk and don't take their advice. Stuff you're supposed to be doing has changed so much, that it is tempting to just do whatever you've been doing all your life. It'll just change again, so why bother.
Forgive me techno father, for I have sinned.
I can see that, I have a few people now who I know aren't going to listen, so I tell them the correct way and then sit back and watch them do something completely different.
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Never heard the term Oregon Trail Generation before but immediately knew what it meant. That's a great name.
I agree! I only heard it in recent years which is pretty recent relatively speaking, but it instantly made complete sense.
I think the most recent memory I have of playing it in school (not emulated later or something). I did a search to look for dates, and I found this awesome short article about the creators. The origin story makes the game even better in hindsight.
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Ffs, I'm 60 this year
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Is the average age of a social media user really that young? Are very young adults and legally speaking children the driving force behind the base of social media? Are even modestly older individuals not willing to try and engage with this developing type of medium?
I think a lot of older people have jobs and real-life hobbies. When you're a kid trapped in the suburbs with no neighbors to play with, you can't drive, you can't walk to anything, the idea of being terminally online is very appealing. I'm still growing out of it in my 30s
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You can.
Relay's are less expensive now, it's about 24 a month.app.wafrn.net is a tumblr thing with atproto support.
Cool! So can you point me at a non-bsky.app instance running the full BlueSky stack that federates with bsky.app and continues working even if bsky.app disappears or defederates with them?
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It’s not over 30? Or on the verge of 40? I see a lotta 40+ memes and sentiments. At least in the communities I frequent.
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Straight up archeological in this place
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As a 2,000 year old prepubescent girl, I don’t know which direction I’m skewing it.
As an ageless fifth dimensional being extending my influence into this world through this rotting meat sack I am confused by both of you as I still recall time as a singularity
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I'm 18, feeling like a fetus in comparison XD
You're a fetus harry!
Especially poignant since this meme is 5 years older than you
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One of the coworkers quickest to get kinda yelly about his opinions at work was a genx guy (older than me) who had very strong "classical liberal" opinions as well as the typical belief that he was being logical, not emotional, as he raised his voice while talking to us about policies he didn't agree with. He also had the typical misogynistic view that he was rational while women were emotional. One time he and I were getting a little heated in a shared discord chat and a mutual friend who was the admin muted both of us.
I told the friend something like "fair, you did try to change the subject and we ignored you, my bad." The older guy got super pissed someone controller his speech and he left the discord forever.
I've also seen my uncle get butthurt that I tried to meditate a discussion between him and my sister (she requested my help because he and my aunt would just both say their side against her and not let them talk.) I mostly just stopped them from interrupting each other and asked them to let the other person speak, and I did it both to my sister and my aunt and uncle.
They later complained about being told what to do in their own house.
While young people can be impulsive and judgy, I find that age does not always fix that. The people it doesn't fix get entitled and think their age justifies their beliefs and that they're automatically wiser than you.
I've had the same experience with some older folks, so there are of course exceptions. I borderline see myself as a young dude (~30) and nearly everyone I work with is older than me, and my communication with younger people as of lately has mostly been digital, and digital communication tends to be far different from physical one, so my experience might aswell be skewed and in the end biased.
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Cool! So can you point me at a non-bsky.app instance running the full BlueSky stack that federates with bsky.app and continues working even if bsky.app disappears or defederates with them?
So, bluesky doesn't work the same as the fediverse,
bsky.app is an appview. It doesn't federate, it just aggregates data and indexes it.
A PDS stores data.If you went to deer.social, and chose something like bsky.aenead.net as your hosting provider, you won't be using any bluesky infrastructure.
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Idunno if it counts as ageism when they're talking about stupid behavior among people with minds that are factually, biologically, not finished developing. Same reason it isn't ageist to say "ten year olds are not allowed to drive cars because they aren't smart enough to do it responsibly"
Never said it was ageism but I am sure it is at least close to it and a good reason to look it up.
I agree with the part here being a nice culture compared to other "social" medias. However repatriating general stupid behavior just on kids is definitely ageism - not sure if that was OPs intention.
Don't quite agree with your comparison:
What you mention is more of skill learning process. Social media is more of a proper behavior to have - I think here the age doesn't matter nearly as much as your surrounding.
