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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[–] kbal@fedia.io 133 points 18 hours ago (27 children)

WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 14 points 18 hours ago (25 children)

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

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

What part of the fediverse is "hard" to use?

Lemmy is easier to use than the UBB forum I started to become active on at the age of 10 that was the entry point for me being on the Internet at all. Back then we didn't have Markdown, but BBCode, and I had that figured out after a few weeks.

I think you're way underestimating young people.

[–] JayGray91@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

I started to think it's because of the result from years of a lot of people being trained and marinated by big tech in siloed opaque social media and website sign ups, where everything is it's own thing with almost no interconnectedness and communication between each other. So it seems hard when they (me too admittedly) see all this instance thing and federated that.

Also IMO fediverse has a too nerdy and being infodumped on image to me. That image, at least on the threadiverse side, seems to be toned down and normie-d with recent "campaigns" on reddit though.

You guys really do need to not be too nerdy lol.

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