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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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 23 hours ago (26 children)

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

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 16 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

And what's the problem with that?

Laws don't currently make a concession for federated social media. If the law in an instance's jurisdiction says that users on a platform must be of a certain age, then for practical/enforcement purposes it makes no difference if they're local or federated.

FWIW, I also ban people under age 18 on my instance (local and federated). Obviously I can't know everyone's age, but if someone offers it and I become aware, and it's below the minimum age set in our policy, then they're banned until they're of age - simple as that.

I'm in the US, so 13 is the minimum age by law for most services (COPPA), and there's various grumblings to increase the age specifically for social media, so I'm playing it safe with 18 which is the age you're legally considered an adult.

Considering some of the stuff that gets posted here (legitimately and via bad actors), then my legal liabilities are less as I'm going out of my way to only serve adults on the platform. Mind you, I'm running this as a hobby / volunteer and do not have a team of lawyers on hand.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Meh. At least pretending to be an adult feels like a pretty low bar.

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[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 23 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 23 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

They are, teenagers (saying this as a teenager) are hopeless. Tech became so easy to use that anything requiring a tiny bit of effort is impossible for these people.

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 points 12 hours ago

You're admitting that after teens just got banned? Guess thats why its a throwaway lol

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

Its the same as its always been. There was always a small subset of the population interested and developing computer sciences. There was never this time where all the youngins knew computers like they did breathing. That was a fallacy.

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

At 14, me and most of my peers could navigate a file system on DOS, format floppies, install games from setup disks, and edit autoexec.bat files.

Yes, there is a huge difference between the teens of today and the teens of 25 years ago. Technological illiteracy is real thanks to the iPhone era and UIs becoming stupid simple to use.

The "iPad kids" meme didn't originate from thin air.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Congrats, you lived in a social bubble. As we all do. Your sounds fun, so cherish the memories and don't pretend your experience is universal.

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[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

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

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

YOU GET INTO INTERNET ARGUMENTS ALL THE TIME, YOU FUNGDARK! YOU'RE IN ONE NOW!

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[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 15 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 10 points 22 hours ago

You would probably be right. Teenagers change political ideologies every other month.

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[–] small44@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Why do you think teens are generally stupid?

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 14 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

As a teenager, I get in stupid arguments making stupid points because in my head, being right is important.

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[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago

not teens, arguments (as in wasted effort to textually convince or defeat a faceless web foe) are usually stupid

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 20 hours ago

Look back at the shit you wrote as a teenager. We were all dumb.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 9 points 21 hours ago

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.

Challenge accepted.

[–] net00@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

I'm actually surprised that a few lemmy instances allow minors to sign up. I don't get it. It's always a liability and platforms tend to become dystopian in the name of "protecting the children" and to comply with additional laws and requirements...

Honestly I'm now thinking of migrating from lemm.ee now that I learned of it allowing minors, this instance could turn into shit because of it. Example: "we'll defederate from any mature instance because the kids can't see boob"

[–] yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

Minors are going to access the internet no matter what you do, it's on them an their underdeveloped brains on whether or not they can handle it.

If their parents don't care enough, then let them be raised here, amongst the stable minds that think anything to the left of burning kids alive for warmth is tankieism (.world) or anything to the right of luxury gay space communism is fascism (all the sane instances).

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