Perhaps it's because people under 30 have no sense of responsibility so don't really care to communicate much with peers. They don't have the means to bring systems like this online. They don't have the historical perspective to take part in intelligent conversation, so they have Twitter and Facebook.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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It's also used by loads of tankies
Young people don't even understand that the internet isn't only the 5 websites that have existed since before they were born lol
That's probably a big part of it. We kind of designed the internet to become an information super oligarchy, even if it wasn't intentional.
I'm 33 for the record so I guess I'm an older tech nerd. Nice. 😎
Noooooo.
Yes.
I started back in the Wild West BBS days on the 80s; graduated to USENET in the 90s, website forums in the Web 1.0 days, /., Reddit, and now Lemmy. Yeah, I’ve been around. Been “Yaztromo” all that time too.
I don’t mind that “Eternal September” hasn’t infected this space yet — that’s a feature, not a bug!
Well it's new open source tech that can be self hosted by the 30+ tech nerds that have the money and interest in it.
as a young IT with friends who dont know much about IT i have to say that most around 20 use reddit, instagram, ... cause its the only thing they know. everyone they know uses them and many of them want likes, ...
if they would join the fediverse:
- they wouldnt understand how it works. what is a server? why choose an instance? its just too complicated
- all their friends dont use the fediverse. they would be alone and have nobody who they can share things to
- they would mostly see tech stuff and less in categories they are interested in
- none of the people they follow on instagram are here. the cant follow their celebrities, ... and see their content
- the fediverse still has to less users to be successful worldwide. its growing. and just like facebook in its first years, its growing slow.
=> give it a few more years and get your friends, family & collegues on here and see the fediverse grow
● under 30
● i mean im getting there in terms of tech interests
● Yeah ok i use linux
Because ipad kids are happy with instagram,tiktok and other shit and doesn't give a fuck about privacy.
- ~30 years old or older
- tech enthusiasts/workers
- linux users
- hates Elon Musk
- hates capitalism
- loves free software but somehow hates free markets
My 15 yo ass
30 is old now? Dafuq
C'mon........16 is old now. Once you hit senior in high school, it's all downhill from there.
Well.. I'm 36 yo physician, an orthopedic surgeon resident. But I do LOVE tech&gaming. I want to switch from reddit because my favorite app boost stopped working and the creator is developing a boost app for lemmy. Oh and the official reddit app is just shit. I do hope lemmy will get bigger.
Oh wow, it's great to hear from a fellow healthcare professional!
I'm a 5th year med student who switched to using lemmy once my favourite app, sync for reddit stopped working :(
I'm a huge tech nerd too and while I do love the culture here, I find myself occasionally wondering if there are any communities on lemmy focused on medicine and/or medical professionals.
Would you happen to know any that you could recommend?
Not that I know of, maybe you can open one 😉
Oh c'mon, 30s is not older.
Is picking a server/federation too complicated?
Yes.
Absolutely.
Literally the single biggest problem with fediverse adoption, brought up in every discussion about migrating to it. It will never replace centralized sites as long as it remains confusing and complicated.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LemmyMigration/comments/145epgc/looking_for_a_lemmy_website_try_lemmyworld/
Good. I don't want to see some teenagers doing some dumb dance or whatever is on normie platforms.
What do people have against dancing? Life is soul sucking enough - let people do their silly little dances without judgement.
Oh I have nothing against it at all, I just have no interest in watching them lol
But then how will we know if our drip is bussin'?
fr no tomorrow our drip is mid no cap
30s software engineer / linux user here.
We are exactly who you want as the "primer" user group. We will collectively make sure the whole thing works before the load really rams up.
We're the generation that learned to troubleshoot bc we had to. If we wanted to play that shiny new game or app, we had to actually get it running first.
I think about this a lot. I'm so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.
TBH, I actually thought he was talking about autoexec.bat and EMS memory, etc, rather than windows. I guess I'm slightly older? Maybe not. I'm also thinking windows registry thing hasn't really gone away. Yet.
I don't want to stereotype anyone, but in my own social experience, younger groups don't give a shit about corporate monopolies or privacy, they just want things to work fast and automatically (ex: TikTok). And those I know in older brackets are still on Facebook and complaining that they don't want to deal with change because their family/business/workflow would be affected.
I happen to be 38, a linux user, and a gamer. And I concur that my age-group has just always seemed to be more open to new technologies for some reason.
I think younger people don't give a shit about privacy because they grew up in a post 9/11 surveillance world. Facebook, Instagram and the internet at large became a giant surveillance machine and they've never known another possibility, so it's normalized to them.
aka: early tech adopters!
these folk are always the ones trying new things, especially anti-corporate things. They aren't keeping people away. this is just how the bleeding edge of new technology. The communities natural grow out over time as more people show up and start to outnumber them. But it's thanks to them that niche new stuff gets supported in the first place while it builds up it's audience (and reduces the friction to joining)
In reddit's early days, it was exactly like this. I remember that it felt like a Linux user forum, but with some conspiracy theorists. I actually feel that lemmy is a little more diverse than that.
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