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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by throwaway@lemmy.cafe to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

First of all, I don't mean this post as a complaint, maybe more of a warning?

There is teenagers on the fediverse. Most of them don't share their age, for hopefully obvious reasons. I'd say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers


because most adults probably wouldn't have the time for that much posting.

While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word, the people who are good at technology, usually are very good at it.

most of my friends (most of which don't know the difference between a laptop and a desktop) could understand the fediverse as a concept perfectly when I explained it to them irl.

So, if you're in a really stupid argument with someone, try to remember that there is a small chance they are 14.

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 hours ago

While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word, the people who are good at technology, usually are very good at it.

"Young people bad!" This paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of the post.

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 hours ago

As a young person, this generation sucks at technology.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

There's neither women nor non-adults on the internet.

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 hours ago

In fact, there's no one on the internet. Its all bots except for you.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Damn, I suspected as much. The NSFW stuff, tho

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago
[-] kane@femboys.biz 12 points 17 hours ago

Maybe, but I was on the internet as a teen and that went fine, being careful is a general thing in life.

But more importantly: adults have a phone and use it during work ALL the time. So I’m not so sure about the average age of the people commenting on here.

[-] recall519@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago

I was smarter than the rest of you all when I was a teen. It wasn't until I became an adult did I get this stupid.

[-] SirQuack@feddit.nl 2 points 15 hours ago

Hey, fuck you for calling adults stupid. Some of us have been stupid the whole time!

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

No, we've definitely gotten dumber as time has gone on. Especially socially; interpersonal skills have basically vanished since I was in high school.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Some are easy to spot because they don't understand that being apologetic has little to do with apologizing, for example. 😅

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
[-] Darkmoon_UK@lemm.ee 9 points 23 hours ago

It should not be that surprising. Many teenagers are really smart, curious and will find their way here. That said I realise your warning is well intentioned; I hope Lemmy remains a more civil place than Reddit became over the last ten years, for everyone; teenagers included.

[-] raynethackery@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

*Are. Not trying to be a jerk if English isn't your first language. Teenagers is a plural noun.

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 3 points 16 hours ago

English is my first language, I have no excuse.

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Listen teens, I'm 40. I was a niteclub bouncer in a town popular with backpackers and partying, I also did a lot of traveling and partying. I was shameless, its a miracle it didnt fall off.

When you say you fucked my mom, its childish and stupid. When I say I fucked your mom while its not likely its possible... and thats worse.

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago

Thats usually said by people in the 9 - 13 age group now.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 9 points 1 day ago

But don’t assume everyone who is very active is a teenagers.

Some of us aren’t ;).

And you don’t have to understand federation to use lemmy. I’ve brought a couple of gen-z ers here. Get them to download voyager. Voyger automatically suggests lemm.ee for account creation. And then you just use it like reddit. Super simple.

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[-] weremacaque@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Most of us would post on forums as teens back in the day, so it’s hypocritical to try to keep them from doing it too. The only places we should run them off would be communities we specifically make for adults. They don’t necessarily have to be NSFW. Sometimes it’s just nice to have a community where everyone is old enough that they get the same references and are in similar stages in life.

General music and hobby related communities really shouldn’t be blocked off, though.

[-] nodiratime@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

A friend and I just yesterday talked about that and how we both visited some random sites/communities back then. How we had ICQ Chats with adults as 13-somethings, phone calls, about the blogosphere, how some Internet friends asked whether you needed something and send it on a disc via Mail.

I suppose if I were a teenager again, I would be here too.

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Odd post, but checks out

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Surprise, surprise. Some chunk of Reddit annoyances stem from kids running around amok.

Then moderators make many stupid rules to try to increase quality and overmoderation takes hold

In short time it becomes increasingly annoying to browse let alone post to get past the anti teen rules filter. Not to mention all the young hormones commenting some stuff at you like it is school break slander or smh

One can always change instance though so it isn’t doom and gloom. The kids will have Lemmy.world and nice, enjoy it and have fun. It is the club penguin of Lemmy instances. We knew this would happen

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Then moderators make many stupid rules to try to increase quality and overmoderation takes hold

This is so true. One of the best decisions I made during my tenure as mod of /r/StarTrek was changing the rules to be spirt-based instead of language-based. People will literally try to lawyer their way around the language of any rule, and it leads to mod burnout when they are getting drawn into rules-debates when it's obvious the person is just trying to get around the spirit of the community's purpose.

For example we had a rule that was literally just "be nice". There's no wriggling around that because it's not some legal text. If someone is ""concerned"" about a request to "be nice" or "be honest", they are not someone we wanted to be around anyway. These are discussion communities, not civil society, not everyone has a right to participate in every single one of them.

As you said the beauty of the fediverse is that each instance can have it's own preferred method of discussion.

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Great comment, great moderation. Also by the way it has come to my attention that your instance bans/warns users that merely upvote discovery hate posts? Or was it some other Star Trek instance?

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 9 hours ago

I know this comment is satire (well done... I think) but I want you to it hurt me deep in my bones.

Cheers

I'm clearly not paying enough for a therapist.

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I am sure you can get a loyal customer discount, after all you were a moderator

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 1 points 16 hours ago

I don't think all, or even most, of the low quality content comes from kids.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 144 points 1 day ago

WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 23 points 1 day ago

Pretty much yeah, most people assume that no one under 30 is on fedi because its "hard" to use.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Is this the popular assumption?

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago

I'm 19 and assumed that there are at least a few. And with that I'm correct.

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[-] Condiment2085@lemm.ee 35 points 1 day ago

This is actually a good thing - teenagers are known to bring niche things into popular culture! For some reason the whole of society kind of cares what they think is cool

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Honestly as an older person it very much feels like a lot of Lemmy is under 25. It's the little things like not understanding the historical context that something from the past fits in while simultaneously telling me Im wrong about the time that I lived through.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Assuming someone to develop a sufficient consciousness of their time starting with age 10 that would mean anything before 2010.

In all practical matter, people who are 25 now, cannot have any practical recollection of the US invasion of Iraq and are only having broad ideas of the 2007 financial crisis.

That is indeed scary.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

You are either a 14 year old socialist furry or a 35 year old Linux user on the fedi. No in between

[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

What if I'm a 21 year old socialist Linux user?

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[-] shikitohno@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

It’s the little things like not understanding the historical context that something from the past fits in while simultaneously telling me Im wrong about the time that I lived through.

In fairness, that's not necessarily a sign of them being young, but could be any number of things at play. I've had my grandmother literally tell me not to tell hew how things were during World War II, because she lived through it, when we were talking about well documented actions of major historical figures that she was confidently incorrect about. No amount of documentation about what Churchill, Stalin or Hitler did during a particular event could change her mind, because she lived through it, never mind the fact that she was like 10 at the time. /r/AskHistorians had a 20 year moratorium on discussing recent events for a reason. Then again, this is the same lady who left her church of decades, because she was sure she was better at interpreting the Bible and church doctrine than all the priests who spent years studying those topics in seminary, since she occasionally read random books of the Bible and was older than they were.

It could also just be peoples' biases at play. A Marxist historian and a fundamentalist, conservative Christian historian will come to wildly different conclusions and interpretations of things like the significance and impact of the rise of the religious right in the US under figures like Ronald Reagan, despite looking at the very same events.

And it could always just be that people are essentially engaging in drive-by posting quite often on the internet. For all the good things it can bring us, and the sense of community that it often provides, I think that internet "communities" really just provide us with a close approximation of community, while fundamentally lacking key elements that help real communities to exist and function in the long term. Personally, I'm closer to the Democratic moderates/centrists that abound on Lemmy.world than I am to my coworkers or my parents politically, yet I find that political discussions here tend to lose all civility and sincerity much quicker than they do with my boss who is all gung-ho for MAGA in real life. Like, I actually got my boss to come around on things like taxing the rich and universal healthcare when I had a chance to explain them without the hysterical stuff Fox tosses out and with examples of how they would actually benefit him to have as a baseline during election season last year, and it was a more civil and less heated conversation than some of those I had here a few months prior about whether Harris was really a good pick when the Democrats announced her as their candidate last year.

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[-] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

There are* teenagers

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago

Teenagers now get banned if they tell their age anyway: !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago

To any teens who come across this post, do NOT admit you're underage or were underage at time of account creation anywhere, anytime for any reason

It's like Rule 1 of the internet.

Sincerely, The kids who grew alongside the internet since the 90s

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[-] shaggyb@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Play with fire, get burned.

If you can't take it, get the fuck out.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago

As a teenager who is relatively tech-savvy and on the fediverse, can confirm. I think it's gotten to the point where even less technically inclined people can join fairly easily, but the more savvy are usually the first to flee from enshittifying platforms so we see a lot more of them here.

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