I'm glad to be here with the rest of you old fogeys
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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
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Watch out! At this rate it’ll feel like enshttfied Reddit by week 5
^do these obvious human accounts think we can't spot them?
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As a 1,000 year old vampire, I apologise for my kind skewing the average.
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There is no fucking way. Some of yall are lying.
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Pretty good and peaceful in my experience.
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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)
Frankly I think it's simply that the public doesn't particularly care to figure it out. As an analogy, people use Windows because that's just what their computer came with, and therefore saying that Linux is free (as in price) is a meaningless selling point to them. You don't convince Windows users to switch by saying that Linux is free, you convince them by saying that Linux is more convenient, stable, and less annoying.
In the same way, you don't convince the public into using Lemmy by arguing about why open protocols are better. You convince people by saying that Lemmy is basically like Reddit but not overrun by bots and spammers
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Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch, I was there when it was written.
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Average here feels like 40+
Even me being 20+, I feel like a kid interrupting adults talking lolz
I read a lot of "back in my day, there weren't smartphones" comments whenever the post talks about technology and smartphones, and I feel so left out. I mean, Smartphones have been a part of most of the life I remember. Can't really remember the world without smartphones.
Idk what I'm doing here, but reddit banned Tor, so I have no where else to anonymously ask weird questions and rant about life.
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Alright smarty pants. Let’s hear about some of your “minimal tech skills”.
I can google error codes
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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)
wrote last edited by [email protected]I don't think its just complexity, its a semi-ghost town if you venture out of the political topics.
I mean, there was never a GoT community, The Expanse Community, Rick and Morty, Squid Game, or like even a GTA community. Inactive communities with 1 post every 3 month doesn't count.
Like this is really just a place to vent about life, and for general everyday discussions, not for topic-specific discussions.
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Average here feels like 40+
Even me being 20+, I feel like a kid interrupting adults talking lolz
I read a lot of "back in my day, there weren't smartphones" comments whenever the post talks about technology and smartphones, and I feel so left out. I mean, Smartphones have been a part of most of the life I remember. Can't really remember the world without smartphones.
Idk what I'm doing here, but reddit banned Tor, so I have no where else to anonymously ask weird questions and rant about life.
Feel free to ask weird questions and rant about life! Our lives were very different 20 years ago, so it's interesting to learn from the perspectives of other generations.
