Me in my 40s
Thats above 20, so you’re key demographic and not at all an outlier
Yeah, this doesn’t make me feel like the Fediverse is full of olds at all. Im old enough to be the average user’s parent.
Dad?
Are you winning, son?
Only if she was lying about her period being a few days away.
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
Bluesky uses a different protocol to mastodon.
It’s also not particularly decentralized / federated, despite what their marketing might say.
That’s not really true anymore.
There is multiple different instances now. I can use bluesky without using bluesky’s servers.I can run my own federated relay and AppView servers now?
You can.
Relay’s are less expensive now, it’s about 24 a month.app.wafrn.net is a tumblr thing with atproto support.
Same here we playing the long con.
age: 21 hairline:31 physical age:101
As a 1,000 year old vampire, I apologise for my kind skewing the average.
As a 2,000 year old prepubescent girl, I don’t know which direction I’m skewing it.
As an ageless fifth dimensional being extending my influence into this world through this rotting meat sack I am confused by both of you as I still recall time as a singularity
I’m nearly 50, not really sure how it all works. Just glad that I found something other than reddit.
20 is old? Rip me then I must be a skeleton.
I’m 35 and seem to find people older than me on here fairly often. So I don’t feel on when I’m on here, until I stand up.
The whole Internet is club penguin apparently.
How would we know the average? I dont remember putting my age when signing up
On the internet, everything is known.
Typical post broccolitude
one data point is missing, all hope of computing the true average is lost. resort to standard deviation of the mean.
Only one point? age is not asked in the signup form
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.
above 50 here.
There are either a ton of 12 year olds on here or an ever larger number of 18 year olds.
I’m 18, feeling like a fetus in comparison XD
You’re a fetus harry!
Especially poignant since this meme is 5 years older than you
XD
Hallo, cousin
Hoi!
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?
I thought I should feel old because everyone else is 20, but here the 20 year old is old and the meme was made by someone below 20???
Nah, I’m 30. It’s just a relief to be on a community where the majority of the commenters aren’t literal children.
If we’re picking characters, I wanna be Uncle Iroh!
Yeah… I’m definitely Bumi
