I'm glad to be here with the rest of you old fogeys
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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.
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Why would our age group be the only ones interested?
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.
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There are either a ton of 12 year olds on here or an ever larger number of 18 year olds.
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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
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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.
