there’s 2 kinds of people on fedi:

40 year olds who remember the good ol days of the interwebs

16 year old queer shitposters who got tired of getting called every slur imaginable on other networks

both are into linux

!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

Accurate.

There are some lost kids wandering around complaining about their moms...

I dunno how they found it into here.

Not 40, but also don't want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization, whether that be by selling my data for profit, training an LLM with my data, or contributing to an inescapable network effect that can be increasingly monetized by various means.

The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.

Fuck that. I don't regret it. We built the world wide web from nothing for everyone and had it fucking stolen by rich assholes who put our community resources WE developed behind ads and paywalls. Unlike those uncreative hacks we have the talent to take it back.

Come now, at least half of Mastodon/*key users are genderqueer twentysomethings who are mind-bogglingly good with computers.

I don't regret it. I only regret letting the corporations stake their claim without greater pushback.

Unfortunately as a younger gen z i need to supplement my Fediversing with traditional social media unless i want to have humor of a previous generation and get obliterated at school. I wish there was a greater variety of people on here

I'm 22 but i kinda like the vibes of here.

If we unite, we can regret it again.

I would say I like it here, imo the format and overall technology is perfect. I am always impressed by how little battery and data voyager uses compared to all the other bloated apps on my phone.

Having said that, I am disappointed that even without feeds and algorithms, it has become a lot more rage inducing and depressing then I would have hoped for.

There is just so many things that affect my life in a negative way being shown here, can’t a guy get a little ignorant bliss about nerdy topics? Or long, deep discussions comparing the philosophies of niche hobbies?

And 30+ year old people who enjoyed the good times while they lasted and are now nostalgic?

i'm 39 and haven't built shit but the regret is real

Yes, bow to me, the grand architect of geocities Dragon Ball Z pages.

Lemmy feels very gen z ish though.

Did we build the world wide web or did we just shitpost for the lulz for decades without realizing we gave all the benefits of our shitposting to Mark Zuckerberg?

Wait I'm considered young here even though I'm in my late 30s?

Honestly really glad, I'm tired of reading teenager opinions everywhere on the Internet

I personally blame the iPhone. Shit all started going downhill from then

I didn't build it, but I was raised by it. I was so hopeful when I was younger.

Does it count as building the web if I worked manufacturing the AOL disks that plagued everyone's mailbox?

Also for people with severe superiority complexes

Hey no fair! I'm 30, I grew up on the Internet and hate what it became

I just wanted my Geocities page back.

I’m about half that age, and I’ve met at least a couple grads and undergrad students on here that I assumed were also in their 20s…