Yeah its weird to think everybody is old here. I am 17 and yall are about as mature as me.
Good way to put it. TBH I get the feeling middle schoolers post a hell of a lot more often than older people here.
A lot of people basically peak in highschool and dont mature much past then. Pretty jarring for people just approaching their 20s who are used to a pretty regular maturity curve in themselves and their peers from ages 0 to 18
Y’all are still in your 20s?
That might be average age across the user population, but I would guess the average age across the population of posts and comments is significantly lower.
I don’t believe it, the majority of .ml, -grad, and -bear, have to be about 13yo or my faith in humanity is destroyed.
Remind your faith that roughly 75 million Americans, all over 18, voted for Donald Trump twice. Might want to have your faith sit down first.
I am convinced that Lemmy tankies are just in it for the sake of belonging in a group, albeit in a toxic way.
I figured it was over 30…
I JUST turned 30 last month, does that count?
Yes
Mostly I wanted to emphasize that we aren’t all borderline literal children here, but yes, the average age is probably higher.
I’m over forty and act like a child constantly
Shut up, doodie head.
Me approaching 50 in a couple of years…
Almost 50. I’m driving up the numbers here.
Wait, you mean you’re all real???
Brb, I need to apologise to my dealer.
Feels like the average age is 15 whenever the discussion topic is political.
No, no, there’s definitely an at-least college-age level of idiocy going on in political topics.
I’ve ready the wiki for communism. I know what im talking about.
Ah. You know theory.
Definite ‘never progressed beyond their first year hot takes’ mentality in some spaces, but I’d argue an engaged older high-schooler will often end up in similar political boats
We remember what the Internet used to be and naturally gravitate towards that.
I miss the old internet. I feel we lost so much along the way. It was wild, but it didn’t feel like everything just existed just to sell you something. Or sell your data.
Let’s be honest, Lemmy may not be the most difficult site on the internet, but the fact that it requires more thought than “sign up” is gonna drive away a lot of casual users of social media. Like the young ones.
I know for some folks it’s a barrier, but this always sounds weird to someone whose registration experience was “haha, funni name” ➡️ types in two fields and presses one button ➡️ fediverse citizen.
Edit: it is somewhat more complicated these days, in that there are now three fields and a captcha.
What? I did just “sign up”… What did I miss??
Where did you come from?
Reddit, and primarily game forums and Tumblr before that. I was but a sprout myself at the time, though.
just over 20?We’re all neurodivergent furries though.
My number is > that, but I wouldn’t describe myself as “not a kid”
