Me in my 40s
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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Thats above 20, so you're key demographic and not at all an outlier
Give them a break. Grandpa doesn't understand memes.
CAN YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS WRITE A LITTLE BIGGER?
That explains a lot
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.
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.
Why do you suppose this is? Are we just the only generation with the minimal tech skills needed to sign up?
Probably less about skill, per se, and more about interest. But the (still very low) barrier to entry probably does weed out a few kids.
Yeah, I mean I wasn't there for old reddit and I am only on lemmy because of the reddit protests, but I couldn't see any of my classmates using anything that's on the fediverse.
Why would our age group be the only ones interested?
A longing for the Good Old Days(tm) of old-style forums and pre-enshittification Reddit?
Certainly my case. But most of the enshitification of Reddit happened just in the last few years, max decade. You'd think we'd at least have some 20 and 30 somethings.
I found a torrent on the piracy com where I can download episodes of Matlock and NCIS.
The young want to be near the popular crowd and the popular ones want to be where the crowd is. Classic network effect. Once you get older, that need to be in the middle of the noise and excitement goes away for many and you look for the more quiet comfortable places.
I doubt it. People don't mention when they're young (except in some specific cases like this). Young people can't compare things to a time they didn't live so only older people mention their age usually. I'm 17 rn been on the fediverse since 16 or maybe 15 I don't really remember.
Edit: I personally feel actively discouraged from mentioning my age (even irl i look older) not cause of safety or anything but I js feel like I'll be treated differently when people know I'm younger. Its happened quite often to me both IRL and online where I'll notice a distinct shift in tone after they know how young I am
I'm happy there are at least some young people here.
Because we say shit like "why do you suppose this is"
age: 21 hairline:31 physical age:101
mental age: 5
pot belly: 45
Mastodon is the German nudist beach of social media. There’s a strong sense of camaraderie, but the average age is somewhere north of 50, and people under 40 instinctively cringe when they hear about it.
If we're picking characters, I wanna be Uncle Iroh!
Yeah... I'm definitely Bumi
above 50 here.
There are either a ton of 12 year olds on here or an ever larger number of 18 year olds.
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.
Happy to be above the age of 20.toString()!
Feels good.