First of all, I don’t mean this post as a complaint, maybe more of a warning?
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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There’s neither women nor non-adults on the internet.
In fact, there’s no one on the internet. Its all bots except for you.
Damn, I suspected as much. The NSFW stuff, tho
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.
As a young person, this generation sucks at technology.
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.
I am literally speaking from experience, as a young person.
I am literally telling you generalizations aren’t helpful. I don’t care about your age.
Ew, gross
Some are easy to spot because they don’t understand that being apologetic has little to do with apologizing, for example. 😅
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.
Hey, fuck you for calling adults stupid. Some of us have been stupid the whole time!
No, we’ve definitely gotten dumber as time has gone on. Especially socially; interpersonal skills have basically vanished since I was in high school.
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.
Surprise, surprise. Some chunk of Reddit annoyances stem from kids running around amok.
Then moderators make many stupid rules to try to increase quality and overmoderation takes hold
In short time it becomes increasingly annoying to browse let alone post to get past the anti teen rules filter. Not to mention all the young hormones commenting some stuff at you like it is school break slander or smh
One can always change instance though so it isn’t doom and gloom. The kids will have Lemmy.world and nice, enjoy it and have fun. It is the club penguin of Lemmy instances. We knew this would happen
Then moderators make many stupid rules to try to increase quality and overmoderation takes hold
This is so true. One of the best decisions I made during my tenure as mod of /r/StarTrek was changing the rules to be spirt-based instead of language-based. People will literally try to lawyer their way around the language of any rule, and it gets exhausting for mods to get drawn into debates when it’s obvious the person is trying to get around the spirit of the community’s purpose.
For example we had a rule that was literally just “be nice” (vs what a lot of communities have which is “don’t be uncivil” followed by a 1000 item list of uncivil things that nobody will read and only exists for mods to point to after the fact). We got a lot of pushback like “who decides what being nice means?” (to which I would reply "if you truly don’t know what ‘nice’ means then you need to ask your mother) but if someone is ““concerned”” about a rule to “be nice” or “honest”, they are probably not someone that needs to be around anyway. It’s a discussion community, not civil society, not everyone has a right to participate.
As you said the beauty of the fediverse is that each instance can have it’s own styles.
Great comment, great moderation. Also by the way it has come to my attention that your instance bans/warns users that merely upvote discovery hate posts? Or was it some other Star Trek instance?
I know this comment is satire (well done… I think) but I want you to it hurt me deep in my bones.
I’m clearly not paying enough for a therapist.
I am sure you can get a loyal customer discount, after all you were a moderator
I don’t think all, or even most, of the low quality content comes from kids.
Play with fire, get burned.
If you can’t take it, get the fuck out.
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 am a teenager.
Most people assume fedi has no one under the age of 20.
I never would’ve guessed 🙄
Get back to r/teenagers, where you belong!
But seriously, thanks for the reminder.
!teenagers@lemmy.world has like 60 people on it.
Also, there’s no way I’m outing myself as a teenager on my main account.
*Are. Not trying to be a jerk if English isn’t your first language. Teenagers is a plural noun.
English is my first language, I have no excuse.
Odd post, but checks out
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.
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.
I don’t assume all of them are.
Knowing a couple of the most active accounts. None of them are teenagers, in all cases middle aged men.
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 it while its not likely its possible… and thats worse.
Thats usually said by people in the 9 - 13 age group now.
