Hope a two part question is allowed but after mostly lurking a lot, I’m noticing that there do seem to be quite a lot of Xennials. But on the other hand, also plenty of rebellious youth.
In my mind I’m thinking that Lemmy userbase is (very broadly generalizing) dividing into people who saw internet’s early days and as such, aren’t scared of the slight technical hurdles to enter. They tend to be a bit worldweary but Lemmy does feel a bit more like OG internet, which they like (this is me). But also, there’s younger people who are techy enough to deal with the hurdles too but see using Lemmy as a sort of an act of rebellion against the mainstream internet (which I appreciate).
That said I feel like the two clash a lot since the former tends to have fewer shits to give than the latter. As often is the case in the whole history of humanity.
Obviously there’s plenty of people who don’t fall into either camps, which is why I’m curious. Lemmy is small enough to have a sense that there are actual, real, individual people here, as opposed to Reddit’s amorphous blob of a massive userbase most of whom seem like bots.
Early 40s.
The API thing almost did it for me. The only reason it didn’t is because Reddit kept working through RedReader (still does). It was the bot banning that finally did it for me. Repeated bans and new accounts because some bot autobanned me for things I really don’t think I should have been banned for. Started noticing the bot banning was targeting comments that mentioned the 2nd amendment. That’s when I noped out. I had already been subbed to /r/RedditAlternatives for a while and Lemmy seemed to be what most people were posting about, so that’s what I went with.
Also found out that subs could autoban you for posting in other subs they don’t like. So you’d comment in a sub and immediately get an automated message from another sub saying you’re permanently banned from their sub for posting in that sub.
I don’t need that shit. I don’t need that shit even if I was getting paid for it. And I wasn’t. Bye, Felicia!!!
Interesting. I’m 46, and sometimes I feel like a frog in boiling water online. I can ignore things I don’t like, generally, but I feel like the www I love/d has been replaced by a maze of ads.
I was thinking about how the www up until, say, Covid was selecting for and encouraging a libertarian bias, but nowadays – now that the technical capabilities exist! – there are many moves towards conformity.