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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[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Pretty much yeah, most people assume that no one under 30 is on fedi because its "hard" to use.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Is this the popular assumption?

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm 19 and assumed that there are at least a few. And with that I'm correct.

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 6 points 23 hours ago

You are.

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm 24 and I'm using it just fine. I'd say that after signing up somewhere and getting an app to login into, the rest is pretty simple and much similar to reddit

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

With lemmy? definitely! On the mastodon side of things? no. Mastodon seems to be for german middle aged bikers now.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh boy, I should get on Mastodon!

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You should also check sharkey! calckey.world

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Invite only instances are even worse because of constant fear of banhammer treatment for wrongthink and then making second account is kinda hard

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, I don't know. Mastodon seems fine to me too

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 7 points 23 hours ago

xkcd.com/2501

[–] dpflug@kbin.earth 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

How is Mastodon harder? (Legit question, not snark)

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 7 points 23 hours ago

There is more missing replies/reactions, and picking an instance is a bit harder imo. Also search is completely broken.

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 19 hours ago

18 here started when I was 17

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What part of the fediverse is "hard" to use?

Lemmy is easier to use than the UBB forum I started to become active on at the age of 10 that was the entry point for me being on the Internet at all. Back then we didn't have Markdown, but BBCode, and I had that figured out after a few weeks.

I think you're way underestimating young people.

[–] Palladiumasteroid@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago

Truly hard to use I'd say are hubzilla and its forks. The rest of the Fediverse doesn't require much knowledge and aren't as hard as their userbases pretend they are (they aren't even hard at all)

[–] JayGray91@fedia.io 2 points 11 hours ago

I started to think it's because of the result from years of a lot of people being trained and marinated by big tech in siloed opaque social media and website sign ups, where everything is it's own thing with almost no interconnectedness and communication between each other. So it seems hard when they (me too admittedly) see all this instance thing and federated that.

Also IMO fediverse has a too nerdy and being infodumped on image to me. That image, at least on the threadiverse side, seems to be toned down and normie-d with recent "campaigns" on reddit though.

You guys really do need to not be too nerdy lol.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm old. I'm not sure what part of lemmy is hard. It's just sign up, click a few things, download an app if you want. I don't even have to remember a password. You don't have to know how to build a car in order to drive.

Yes, noticed the influx of youngsters recently in the daily posts of 'how come my boyfriend won't talk to me', 'why are the girls at school so jealous of me', etc. Also, putting 19/f in the post. What's that about?

[–] cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social 3 points 20 hours ago

I'm also old and I really don't know what's going on. You're mostly right, I'm here reading stuff and it's working fine for me, but when it comes to federated instances and mastodons, I'm not sure I'll ever really understand what this IS

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

I am a young person. It made sense once i explained it to them, but they had no idea how to do anything without my help, at first.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The assumptions that people make about age boggle my mind. You know that the people who made the internet are all "old" now, right?

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 0 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, though most people severely underestimate, or overestimate the internets age.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fedi does screw heavy middle aged and male and US but any one who can handle Linux can figure our how to operate here haha

Yeah kids might be retarded tech wise now but there is always the nerds who excel at tech so they would naturally end up here

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just a heads up, thats considered a slur.

Also, you're forgetting the germans! Fedi seems really popular there.

[–] docus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Careful there, there are boomers on lemmy

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago

Start making the list, all of them are going to a FEMA camp staffed by Obama death panels just like fox news promised in 2012!

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 23 hours ago

Do you mean skew?