(Roughly) how old are you and how did you come to be on Lemmy? by SamemaS in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] SamemaS@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 day ago

I'm in my 40's and by golly do I like charts.

I mean I realize that my whole topic might specifically attract only my age group to respond. But it's not like I'm making an academic study 😅

(Roughly) how old are you and how did you come to be on Lemmy? by SamemaS in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] SamemaS@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 day ago

A lot of people are way older than I thought. Interesting. Thank you!

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(Roughly) how old are you and how did you come to be on Lemmy? (lemmy.wtf)
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Hope a two part question is allowed but after mostly lurking a lot, I'm noticing that there do seem to be quite a lot of Xennials. But on the other hand, also plenty of rebellious youth.

In my mind I'm thinking that Lemmy userbase is (very broadly generalizing) dividing into people who saw internet's early days and as such, aren't scared of the slight technical hurdles to enter. They tend to be a bit worldweary but Lemmy does feel a bit more like OG internet, which they like (this is me). But also, there's younger people who are techy enough to deal with the hurdles too but see using Lemmy as a sort of an act of rebellion against the mainstream internet (which I appreciate).

That said I feel like the two clash a lot since the former tends to have fewer shits to give than the latter. As often is the case in the whole history of humanity.

Obviously there's plenty of people who don't fall into either camps, which is why I'm curious. Lemmy is small enough to have a sense that there are actual, real, individual people here, as opposed to Reddit's amorphous blob of a massive userbase most of whom seem like bots.

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Lemmy – lacking tolerance and acceptance? by SamemaS in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] SamemaS@lemmy.wtf 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yeah people dogpile a lot. One person disagrees, very often with a snarky strawman and gets upvoted and people take that as a cue that it's what they are supposed to think, instead of actually thinking for themselves (but they're totes above groupthink)

What’s your most controversial opinion? by SamemaS in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] SamemaS@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I support it as well. In my country we already have ID verification that goes through banks. I can log into my healthcare system etc. by it.

Just branch out a service to social media sites that answers only one question: Is this person over 18? Yes/No.

They don't need anything else. By extension, this also answers the question if someone is a real person. Which is another thing I think we need on social media. Yes, maintain public anonymity but there needs to be some verification that they are a real person.

(Also, Spokeo got nothing on me, wohoo)

What’s your most controversial opinion? by SamemaS in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] SamemaS@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 week ago

I don't mean harm but this reminds me of the political compass and centrists who just want to grill. Like, if this is your most controversial opinion lol

In software the map and the territory are the same thing. by SamemaS in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
the one where ross says a slur by SamemaS in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[-] SamemaS@lemmy.wtf 13 points 3 weeks ago

What, and give up purity testing? That would eliminate 90% of our recreational outrage and give us time and energy to actually do something. Can't have that.

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