I'm 39 and 3 months, thankyouverymuch, so I DO NOT fit the demographic!

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Huh? I'm just trying to find the comm I can't remember cuz it pinned what to do, like I gotta find/remember quick, whether you keep it cold or warm, I know it depends, you got the link?

We shall bring the weird gen Z here so they can "match your freak" as the kids say these days.

Surprised there are no video essays on how reddit destoryed the internet

Well, you are using world, which is like the reddit of lemmy

Yep, I was just addicted to reddit, went through my comments and posts after getting banned and realized it had been years since I really got value of interacting. Any question you want to ask has prob already been asked recently due to the sheer volume of ppl.

Third kind (the only people I know from real life who use the fediverse): Tech/math enthusiasts, usually grad students (who are also into linux)

Why can't you comment while on a VPN? I'm on a VPN right now and I'm commenting.

Also, I hate to tell you this, but reddit is the way it is because it's so popular. If we had the amount of people necessary to make niche communities thrive, it would be just like reddit. Well, at least as far as the people posting and so on. There wouldn't be any of the weird administrative stuff because it's run much differently. But the fact that the system is just like reddit's means that it attracts the same kinds of people and encourages the same kind of behavior.

it's dangerous to get too excited at your age, gramps, your heart might not take it

I just turned 24. I like my internet smol.

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?

Go Sports!

Nah, join the dark side. There will soon be a day when you can't understand the young ones anyway. Why not today?

Was it cake?

By commenting this on a federated platform, you have contributed to the open web. The fediverse is nothing if there's no content / interactions, like your comment. I know what you mean and it might not seem like much, but you are building shit.

This isn't the corporate web, donate blood, don't sell it.

Or pirate it.

Lemmy feels very gen z ish though.

I learned the first bits of HTML by editing an index.html file from an AOL disk and customizing it to be my own homepage. We didn't even had home internet back then. So yeah, it counts.

Just like you can only find the specialty stores in the cities, where you'll also find parking and traffic problems

When Facebook came around, I immediately saw what it would lead to. Hell, just the thought of sharing your personal details for anyone and everyone to read was extremely creepy to me. Any time I tried to communicate this to people asking me why I wasn't on Facebook it achieved nothing. Pushback was useless, people want what they perceive as "convenience" even when they have to (almost literally) sell their souls to the machine. No, I don't think pushback would have helped, because people want these - and I shudder to call them such - services. The Internet was doomed the day it became mainstream.

When I was young, I was called a nerd for using computers. People online were primarily nerds who cared about tech. Those days are long gone, and there was nothing that could've been done to prevent the rot. It was inevitable as the Internet became more popular.

The masses will always be asses. They don't care. They will eat corporate slop and ask for seconds until their bloated corpses burst. The best we can do is create alternative infrastructures and wait with horror as they start to rot too.

Jesus, I think I'm having a bit of a blue day.

lol

I thought humanity's problem was lack of access to information. The Internet proved I was catastrophically mistaken. The real world beat that idealistic youth to submission.

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

Yeah, I know. But the old main IRC spanish network is mostly dead since MS messenger. Still exists, but channnels are empty or are only people looking for sex.

That's just because we're all sarcastic latchkey kids at heart

That was so unexpected that I misread it and made a joke about gen x. We seem that young to you?

Is your back giving you trouble, too?

Thanks for bringing some youth to the place.

I'll be back within a day, you'd better have your topic of conversation prepared!

So my opinions are automatically worthless just because I'm 19?

I've been on here since I was 16 lol

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

Was thinking of making a post about movies which have reception of being worse than the book by the general public that was better than the book in your opinion.

Take a look at !memes@lemmy.ml on any given day and tell me anyone there is ocver 30

I agree. After being here for a while, I realized that my feed is always depressing and negative, and the comments and discussions are as well, to the point where I pretty much stopped using Lemmy for a while.
But I guess the solution is simply to seek out other communities that are more positive - there should be plenty to choose from :)

I think it is kinda the same 'echo chamber' problem that other social media has - I feel my own opinions are being reinforced to the extreme, and while I am glad to be with like-minded people, it is also very exhausting.

Anyway, time to go exploring new communities!

I'm in this image and I don't like it

I'm not yet even close to 40, yet I still believe I am one of the "people who built the World Wide Web", in the sense that I've been posting to it for more than 20 years (there are still old forum posts online that I wrote at the age of 10), i.e. before it was something the general public did a lot.

I'm on the one hand proud of how much it has grown and how much more popular it has become; and on the other hand, worried that this has caused governments around the world to pay a lot more attention to it and limit our freedom on it through age verification laws and similar...

What did I do this time?!

Hello, it’s me, Al Gore

We’re definitely here too

:old-man-yells-at-clouds-meme:

Reddit has additionally deteriorated because it's pushing more and more algorithmic content surfacing. The home page there is now closer to a facebook feed than the old default 'Hot' sorting. You also get pushed random subs and posts at the bottom of pages. Comments are also buried or surfaced depending on some algorithm not directly tied to upvotes.

Plus a ton of the users are now coming from mobile and are "app first".

Yea tbh it's kinda a struggle to find hobby communities

Turns out finding a niche in an already niche community is kinda hard

I have so many filters just to block depressing news... Also to block strange hive mind posts about beans etc.

That's one thing you can do here that you (no longer) can on Reddit

If I could enforce just one of the old rules it would be LURK MOAR.

Finally someone who at least knows the difference between the WWW and the Internet...

Jip :D

I have that instance blocked, so I guess we're experiencing very different versions of Lemmy.