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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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

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.

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't think all, or even most, of the low quality content comes from kids.