Me in my 40s
Thats above 20, so you’re key demographic and not at all an outlier
Give them a break. Grandpa doesn’t understand memes.
That explains a lot
Yeah, this doesn’t make me feel like the Fediverse is full of olds at all. Im old enough to be the average user’s parent.
Dad?
Are you winning, son?
Only if she was lying about her period being a few days away.
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.
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)
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.
Hey now the green text community is doing well, though I wish we got some of the spicy shit.
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
Re:
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.
It’s also not particularly decentralized / federated, despite what their marketing might say.
That’s not really true anymore.
There is multiple different instances now. I can use bluesky without using bluesky’s servers.I can run my own federated relay and AppView servers now?
You can.
Relay’s are less expensive now, it’s about 24 a month.app.wafrn.net is a tumblr thing with atproto support.
Same here we playing the long con.
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.
It’s okay–we old folks can benefit from having a few younguns around.
back in my day, there weren’t smartphones
We of the fabled Oregon Trail Generation had the unique experience of an analog childhood and an adulthood in the digital hellscape we all know and love.
So when we wandered off into the woods for hours, or even once I could borrow a car and head over to a friends’ place? Completely unreachable. The only exception was the house phone at a friend’s place if we were there.
When I was in college, Wi-Fi was just becoming popular. The equivalent to walking down the sidewalk with your face in your phone was the couple grad student TAs who were busy or nerdy enough to walk between buildings holding their laptop open in front of them. Wi-Fi was not built in of course. It was a PCMCIA card sticking out of the side.
When we were home or in our dorms, we didn’t sit on our phones, we sat on our PCs! And now decades later I’ve transitioned back to sitting on my PC at home and it’s great, lol.
My first personal cell phone of any kind was my dad handing me down his old work phone when I finished college and moved a couple hours away. It was a Motorola Startac motherfucker! Look it up and be jealous!
It’s funny because I’m only in my mid 40s and have very little gray hair. I don’t feel like an old, but I have absolutely hit the point of the “back in my day” attitude. I usually don’t actually say anything unless I see a good joke in it, because that would be cliched and obnoxious.
I bet there’s something about being the age where you could be a grandparent. There’s something pretty damn wholesome about watching people who are young enough to be your children having their own families and careers and stuff. We had our kid about a decade later than we wanted, so I think my son gets to benefit from me being half chill grandpa and not 100% frantic young parent.
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.
I was probably older than you are now when you were born. It’s been interesting (in the ancient curse sense of the word) to witness firsthand a world without internet slowly becoming online, advancing, then decaying into the corporate-run AI slop hellscape we’re seeing today.
age: 21 hairline:31 physical age:101
mental age: 5
pot belly: 45
nah its at 35, I have still ways to grow
I’m nearly 50, not really sure how it all works. Just glad that I found something other than reddit.
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.
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
I’m just happy there aren’t any, or at least many, teens and kids here. Reading the comments on Reddit, YouTube and anywhere else where they are is a fucking fever dream of stupidity, ignorance and weirdness. It’s mostly fine here, and it’s a nice break.
20 is old? Rip me then I must be a skeleton.
I’m 35 and seem to find people older than me on here fairly often. So I don’t feel on when I’m on here, until I stand up.
The whole Internet is club penguin apparently.
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?
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.
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
XD
Hallo, cousin
Hoi!
above 50 here.
There are either a ton of 12 year olds on here or an ever larger number of 18 year olds.
How would we know the average? I dont remember putting my age when signing up
one data point is missing, all hope of computing the true average is lost. resort to standard deviation of the mean.
Only one point? age is not asked in the signup form
Typical post broccolitude
On the internet, everything is known.
Ffs, I’m 60 this year
