• Jerb322@lemmy.world
    18·
    6 days ago

    I’m nearly 50, not really sure how it all works. Just glad that I found something other than reddit.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      This is it. I grew out of reddit too. And it’s funny cause when I started using it was around 2012-ish, and everyone was around their 20s/30s with the occasional edgy teen # chan refugee. Yeah we told a lot of the same dumb jokes still circulating now (cause it’s more than half bots now), but now every single thread is literally ALL the same exact jokes I saw a decade plus ago, again and again, day after day.

      At least this lemme gives a joke a few days to rest before trying to milk that old skinny cow again.

  • TheBannedLemming@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 days ago

    Is the average age of a social media user really that young? Are very young adults and legally speaking children the driving force behind the base of social media? Are even modestly older individuals not willing to try and engage with this developing type of medium?

    • Tired@slrpnk.net
      7·
      6 days ago

      Kids and trendy young people are on tiktok and Instagram and do short video clip based social media.

      The people who grew up with the internet being a place where you type and read things to be social, are here and places like here.

      I think folk just prefer what they know, like if you grew up with loud and bright video clips being the normal way to interact online, you’d probably not want to switch over to reading and typing- which probably also feels like more effort to these people than just performing for a camera.

      Same likely goes for us text based social media people but in reverse.

    • twice_hatch@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      I think a lot of older people have jobs and real-life hobbies. When you’re a kid trapped in the suburbs with no neighbors to play with, you can’t drive, you can’t walk to anything, the idea of being terminally online is very appealing. I’m still growing out of it in my 30s

  • M137@lemmy.world
    131·
    6 days ago

    I’m just happy there aren’t any, or at least many, teens and kids here. Reading the comments on Reddit, YouTube and anywhere else where they are is a fucking fever dream of stupidity, ignorance and weirdness. It’s mostly fine here, and it’s a nice break.

      • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Idunno if it counts as ageism when they’re talking about stupid behavior among people with minds that are factually, biologically, not finished developing. Same reason it isn’t ageist to say “ten year olds are not allowed to drive cars because they aren’t smart enough to do it responsibly”

        • Dynamo Maus@feddit.org
          2·
          5 days ago

          Never said it was ageism but I am sure it is at least close to it and a good reason to look it up.

          I agree with the part here being a nice culture compared to other “social” medias. However repatriating general stupid behavior just on kids is definitely ageism - not sure if that was OPs intention.

          Don’t quite agree with your comparison: What you mention is more of skill learning process. Social media is more of a proper behavior to have - I think here the age doesn’t matter nearly as much as your surrounding.

  • zeca@lemmy.ml
    13·
    6 days ago

    How would we know the average? I dont remember putting my age when signing up

  • fin@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    6 days ago

    I remember when I created my first lemmy account on fediverse on lemmy.ml when I was like 15 or 16. 20 years old now, I’m in the elderly group…

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    It’s not over 30? Or on the verge of 40? I see a lotta 40+ memes and sentiments. At least in the communities I frequent.

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      6 days ago

      I’m curious if that’s because you think people seem immature or something? I’m in my 40s, and work with people both older and younger than me. I can see comments across Lemmy that I wouldn’t find unusual for here, except maybe a stronger leaning towards left leaning politics, privacy, etc.

      I’ve seen a huge amount of immature adults.

      • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        people seem immature or something?

        It’s more about general toxicity and too quick to judge (edit: which I guess counts as immature), but I gotta say it has gotten better, likely due to said users slowly getting banned.

        I noticed multiple times that the person I was arguing with was suddenly removed by moderators.

        • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          6 days ago

          One of the coworkers quickest to get kinda yelly about his opinions at work was a genx guy (older than me) who had very strong “classical liberal” opinions as well as the typical belief that he was being logical, not emotional, as he raised his voice while talking to us about policies he didn’t agree with. He also had the typical misogynistic view that he was rational while women were emotional. One time he and I were getting a little heated in a shared discord chat and a mutual friend who was the admin muted both of us.

          I told the friend something like “fair, you did try to change the subject and we ignored you, my bad.” The older guy got super pissed someone controller his speech and he left the discord forever.

          I’ve also seen my uncle get butthurt that I tried to meditate a discussion between him and my sister (she requested my help because he and my aunt would just both say their side against her and not let them talk.) I mostly just stopped them from interrupting each other and asked them to let the other person speak, and I did it both to my sister and my aunt and uncle.

          They later complained about being told what to do in their own house.

          While young people can be impulsive and judgy, I find that age does not always fix that. The people it doesn’t fix get entitled and think their age justifies their beliefs and that they’re automatically wiser than you.

          • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            I’ve had the same experience with some older folks, so there are of course exceptions. I borderline see myself as a young dude (~30) and nearly everyone I work with is older than me, and my communication with younger people as of lately has mostly been digital, and digital communication tends to be far different from physical one, so my experience might aswell be skewed and in the end biased.

    • Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      I don’t think many people on here are in highschool, I’m in my mid twenties and have always felt on the younger side here.

      • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
        5·
        6 days ago

        I think the average age is probably 35 - 40. If you’re here, you’re here because you want the internet from the late 00s.

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
    75·
    8 days ago

    Week 1 feels like a ghost town. Week 2 feels like old old Reddit. Week 3 feels like old Reddit. I’m content and there is content.

  • moseschrute@lemmy.mlEnglish
    50·
    7 days ago

    Me as Gen Z trying to get all my Gen Z friends to join Lemmy, not very successfully. Though to be fair, I’m basically as old as you can be and still be Gen Z.

    • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
      17·
      7 days ago

      My introduction is subtle. I text content to people. When they ask me where I get it (it’s happened twice so far), I say Lemmy. They say, “what’s that.” Gives me an opportunity to explain the similarities and differences with (advantages over) Reddit. No takers yet, but it’s coming.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        6 days ago

        i wish there was a useable german instance for the general public.

        discuss.tchncs.de is great but as the name says, rather for techy people

        feddit.org is borderline unusable garbage between political shit-takes (constant bickering and non-constructive arguments) and generally a very non-open mood, it feels to me.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          21·
          6 days ago

          Yeah it’s hard to get people to join when you explain how instances work and then immediately follow up with “never ever use [list of instances] because they oppose democracy and want the west to nuke itself.”

      • isar@lemmy.ml
        8·
        7 days ago

        On Reddit there’s a lot of “lemmy’s too complicated to be adopted by the general public”. Ik we don’t all have the same tech literacy but it doesn’t seem that complicated, like, do you understand emailing? Then you understand most of what lemmy is… (also you don’t even have to understand the intricacies to enjoy your experience there)

        • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          7 days ago

          I don’t think its just complexity, its a semi-ghost town if you venture out of the political topics.

          I mean, there was never a GoT community, The Expanse Community, Rick and Morty, Squid Game, or like even a GTA community. Inactive communities with 1 post every 3 month doesn’t count.

          Like this is really just a place to vent about life, and for general everyday discussions, not for topic-specific discussions.

          • dehyzer@piefed.socialEnglish
            13·
            7 days ago

            Maybe part of why Lemmy skews older is because this is basically what “old” Reddit felt like.

            Before Reddit became the Walmart of internet forums that put all the little guys out of business and gained enough critical mass to have a niche community for every topic under the sun, it was just a quirky place that catered towards tech, politics, and this exact sort of “general everyday discussion” you’re talking about.

            I loved that era of Reddit, and I love that Lemmy is providing something that’s close to that experience.

            • Aetherion@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              sick.

              I wonder how Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse or alternative web like Gemini Protocol would be if it gets adopted by let’s say 1/10 of the world.

              I think: pretty much as amazing as the internet in the 90s/early 2000s.

            • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              6 days ago

              i think lemmy skews older because of the more complicated sign-up process and people being more tech-inclined around here and a bit more mature than the general public. and i love that, btw. less shallow “entertainment” and more memes and especially based arguments about things.

        • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
          8·
          7 days ago

          Frankly I think it’s simply that the public doesn’t particularly care to figure it out. As an analogy, people use Windows because that’s just what their computer came with, and therefore saying that Linux is free (as in price) is a meaningless selling point to them. You don’t convince Windows users to switch by saying that Linux is free, you convince them by saying that Linux is more convenient, stable, and less annoying.

          In the same way, you don’t convince the public into using Lemmy by arguing about why open protocols are better. You convince people by saying that Lemmy is basically like Reddit but not overrun by bots and spammers

      • Aneb@lemmy.world
        6·
        7 days ago

        Re:

        No takers yet, but it’s coming.

        I literally have explained the open protocols for social sharing that were released years ago. I tried to tell them that nobody can track you. And the ads they see don’t go to corps but literally no buy in from my friends and family. My sister has a blue sky account and I told her she was part if the Masterdon/Lemmy federation. She just thinks blue sky is a better twitter, for now.