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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14 going on 40 so it will be some spirited ebeef. No quarter will be given
Some are easy to spot because they don’t understand that being apologetic has little to do with apologizing, for example. 😅
I’m sorry?
Found the teen! Yo guise, I caught one live! 😂
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.
I would consider myself proof ; )
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.
we would not stop from accessing adult stuff, if we wanted to. so trying to hard prevent them now would be hypocritical too imo. it is our job as parents to prepare them as good as we can.
A friend and I just yesterday talked about that and how we both visited some random sites/communities back then. How we had ICQ Chats with adults as 13-somethings, phone calls, about the blogosphere, how some Internet friends asked whether you needed something and send it on a disc via Mail.
I suppose if I were a teenager again, I would be here too.
I mean, as a teenager, if a community says in the rules that its for adults only, I’d avoid it.
Honestly I think that’s unusual for a teenager
I don’t think so.
Press x to doubt
There are* teenagers
shut up nerd
I also like that phrase. I wish I could say it more often in jest without getting slaughtered for it. Lol
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
*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.
You people still get into arguments online? Discussions, sure… but arguments? o.O
Oh my sweet, summer child…
Ha! I wish.
Discussions, arguments, uncontrolled debates, whatever you want to call it.
YOU GET INTO INTERNET ARGUMENTS ALL THE TIME, YOU FUNGDARK! YOU’RE IN ONE NOW!
Ah cool hang on, just let me get some snacks and a drink before we get in to it.
@Angelusz @throwaway Only with Nazis, racist and bigots.
I spend all my time on twitter arguing with russian bots before deleting my account. There was some really shit takes there.
They start out as discussions, but it only takes one party to turn that into an argument. Generally though, continuing the argument is more to convince onlookers than the argumentative party.
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”
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).
They won’t, lemm.ee has a policy on federation, and they wouldn’t let kids get in the way of it.
Lemm.ee allows minors out of the same school of thought why it allows federation with nearly all instances there are, including NSFW: liberalism (as in: freedom)
Ew, gross
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 free time, rich teens spending their parents money drive our trends probably , not even probably thats most influencers, like alix earle , its funny af that all the girls ik that repost eat the rich and shit follow her and taylor swift
It’s just so tiring to discuss something like politics with someone who is literally 12.
I agree. Discussing politics should require some form of age verification! Reading the myopic takes are enough torture on their own, let alone having to contend with them.
(Yes, this is hyperbole. If y’all come for me I’ll laugh really hard at you.)
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.
https://lemmy.cafe/post/14200034
Be careful admitting that.
Teenager ≠ underage, 18 and 19 year olds exist. But thanks for your concern. :)
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! Edit: /s
No, we’ve definitely gotten dumber as time has gone on. Especially socially; interpersonal skills have basically vanished since I was in high school.
I’ve long assumed that many (most?) of the tankies, and of hexbear’s userbase in general, are teens.
The Lemmy devs themselves are around 18, I think.
That would explain their behavior.
One of them has a kid, so not too sure about that
You would probably be right. Teenagers change political ideologies every other month.
