Fediverse

WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word

Generalizations and eager bootlicking of generational propaganda isn't helpful at all.

Ah yes, of course other generations are much better with technology than today's teens.

WHAT!!!??

TEENAGERS??

ONLINE?????

Brooo I had no idea... how could this happen? I never would've guessed there could be teenagers despite at one point being one and using the internet. I get you're probably pretty new to being online but like come on, the rest of the world doesn't discover things at the rate you do...

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.

You people still get into arguments online? Discussions, sure.. but arguments? o.O

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.

14 going on 40 so it will be some spirited ebeef. No quarter will be given

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.

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

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

I've long assumed that many (most?) of the tankies, and of hexbear's userbase in general, are teens.

Why do you think teens are generally stupid?

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

Odd post, but checks out