Mastodon toot:
Daniel Lakeland @[email protected]
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
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.
Cool. Can I buy some of your blood?
I eat plastic to feel young.
Good. Glad you like the place.
Only it’s being overrun by a bunch of teenaged idealists that insult anyone that disagrees with them.
HOW DO YOU KKOW MY AGE?! fuck. i’m in.
Who invented the modern computer look and feel - the sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration: What they wanted and how it went:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunenwe wrote the rules of the internet, and while some were In-jokes about life on 4Chan, a lot of them are just plain truisms. But the language makes Gen Z have the buttpains, so here we are…
If we unite, we can regret it again.
That was my first thought. If we believe in ourselves we can fill Lemmy with ads and make it a subscription service and sell everyone’s data to the lowest bidder. We can do it!
im gonna gift you Lemmy Plutonium for this!
I can’t understate how much I love this art
I think you mean overstate? Otherwise you’re saying that you don’t really like it at all.
Yeah, overstate. But I will still leave the comment unedited
It’s ok, we overstood you. But yeah, pmjv is a fucking genius.
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
you forgot the 3rd kind
Russian bots
also into linux
Not so sure, Putin was spotted voting on a unactivated windows computer (so several of my colleagues told me yesterday, haven’t verified that claim).
dont i remember there were no cables running to the monitor
Isn’t that something else? No matter where you are on the planet, if you know technology, you despise Windows.
the 3rd kind is people too toxic for reddit and got banned
Luckily it is typically too small to be much of a bot target. I don’t subscribe to world news subs though, dark places.
It’s usually only the news subs. But if you make claims that counter Kremlin propaganda you can sometimes summon them.
Like if I just Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine, it won’t (why? Beats me). But if I say they are killing ethnic Russian Ukrainian citizens as well as Ukrainian men, women, and children, then we have a good chance.
I got others if it doesn’t work.
Wait I’m considered young here even though I’m in my late 30s?
You are but a whelpling. Welcome.
Yup, some of us are old enough to call the 40 and 50 year olds “young whippersnappers”.
Thanks glad I’m here
You seem like a polite child, but isn’t it a little late for you to be up? Hurry to bed before your parents find out.
Does it count as building the web if I worked manufacturing the AOL disks that plagued everyone’s mailbox?
Sorry to say, that was more like the initial wave of enshitification.
Accurate.
I winced.
Ditto
Team sport 😬
Uhhh Go Team !!! (insert hey mickey gif) lol
But not too big a team, it gets ruined once you get too big
I’m going with cuck porn on this one
🥦😎
Maybe mastodon but the lemmy / piefed / mbin instances seem to be a much younger user base.
There are some lost kids wandering around complaining about their moms…
I dunno how they found it into here.
I found myself in comparable spaces for the time too. Spend enough time online and you hear about things.
The great thing about the Internet is that people can just find stuff, often by accident.
Well, people used to be able to do that. Nowadays, IDK…
I accidentally stumbled upon the Wikipedia article about Sad Clowns when I was looking for that picture of the happy/sad face from theater.
I have mixed feelings about what I read today. :|
complaining about their +70 year old mom
you leave my muddah out 'o this!
i’m 39 and haven’t built shit but the regret is real
