I'm glad to be here with the rest of you old fogeys
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Older average age is a feature, not a bug. I hope fedi keeps out the under 40s
wrote last edited by [email protected]I can see some 39 year old looking at this and going "darn it."
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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.
Early 30 here. Mobile phones only started being accessible when I was like in 5th year of school, smartphones, like proper ones, android/ios - that was closer to my university days. Before that we had different phones with good displays but controlled by buttons, you could play games on those too, but lot simpler ones.
What I'm trying to say, your gen is about the first one to experience "smartphone was here always" vibe.
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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.
u20 here, feels like watching the retirees table at the local pub, just with better informed politics and tech savvy. Very funny, would recommend.
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20 is old? Rip me then I must be a skeleton.
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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.
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.
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I'm nearly 50, not really sure how it all works. Just glad that I found something other than reddit.
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It's also not particularly decentralized / federated, despite what their marketing might say.
That's not really true anymore.
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As a 1,000 year old vampire, I apologise for my kind skewing the average.
As a 2,000 year old prepubescent girl, I don’t know which direction I’m skewing it.
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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.
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.
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Maybe part of why Lemmy skews older is because this is basically what "old" Reddit felt like.
Before Reddit became the Walmart of internet forums that put all the little guys out of business and gained enough critical mass to have a niche community for every topic under the sun, it was just a quirky place that catered towards tech, politics, and this exact sort of "general everyday discussion" you're talking about.
I loved that era of Reddit, and I love that Lemmy is providing something that's close to that experience.
i think lemmy skews older because of the more complicated sign-up process and people being more tech-inclined around here and a bit more mature than the general public. and i love that, btw. less shallow "entertainment" and more memes and especially based arguments about things.
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Maybe part of why Lemmy skews older is because this is basically what "old" Reddit felt like.
Before Reddit became the Walmart of internet forums that put all the little guys out of business and gained enough critical mass to have a niche community for every topic under the sun, it was just a quirky place that catered towards tech, politics, and this exact sort of "general everyday discussion" you're talking about.
I loved that era of Reddit, and I love that Lemmy is providing something that's close to that experience.
sick.
I wonder how Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse or alternative web like Gemini Protocol would be if it gets adopted by let's say 1/10 of the world.
I think: pretty much as amazing as the internet in the 90s/early 2000s.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]lemmy has 30 K users by now worldwide btw, it started in late 2019 iirc. maybe we can get a million by 2030.
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I always somehow assumed it's lower. Around 16 if I had to guess. We need a poll
I don't think many people on here are in highschool, I'm in my mid twenties and have always felt on the younger side here.
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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.
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.
reminder that not everyone is a westerner. my home village only had internet (adsl) like in 2008 or so
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How would we know the average? I dont remember putting my age when signing up
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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.
Same here we playing the long con.
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I don't think many people on here are in highschool, I'm in my mid twenties and have always felt on the younger side here.
I think the average age is probably 35 - 40. If you're here, you're here because you want the internet from the late 00s.
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How would we know the average? I dont remember putting my age when signing up
Typical post broccolitude
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I always somehow assumed it's lower. Around 16 if I had to guess. We need a poll
I'm curious if that's because you think people seem immature or something? I'm in my 40s, and work with people both older and younger than me. I can see comments across Lemmy that I wouldn't find unusual for here, except maybe a stronger leaning towards left leaning politics, privacy, etc.
I've seen a huge amount of immature adults.
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How would we know the average? I dont remember putting my age when signing up
On the internet, everything is known.
