Some are easy to spot because they don't understand that being apologetic has little to do with apologizing, for example. π
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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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!
No, we've definitely gotten dumber as time has gone on. Especially socially; interpersonal skills have basically vanished since I was in high school.
Maybe, but I was on the internet as a teen and that went fine, being careful is a general thing in life.
But more importantly: adults have a phone and use it during work ALL the time. So Iβm not so sure about the average age of the people commenting on here.
WHAT!!!??
TEENAGERS??
ONLINE?????
Brooo I had no idea... how could this happen? I never would've guessed there could be teenagers despite at one point being one and using the internet. I get you're probably pretty new to being online but like come on, the rest of the world doesn't discover things at the rate you do...
I am a teenager.
Most people assume fedi has no one under the age of 20.
Get back to r/teenagers, where you belong!
But seriously, thanks for the reminder.
!teenagers@lemmy.world has like 60 people on it.
Also, there's no way I'm outing myself as a teenager on my main account.
I never would've guessed π
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 isnβt 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
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.
Great comment, great moderation. Also by the way it has come to my attention that your instance bans/warns users that merely upvote discovery hate posts? Or was it some other Star Trek instance?
I don't think all, or even most, of the low quality content comes from kids.
*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.
It should not be that surprising. Many teenagers are really smart, curious and will find their way here. That said I realise your warning is well intentioned; I hope Lemmy remains a more civil place than Reddit became over the last ten years, for everyone; teenagers included.
Odd post, but checks out
But donβt assume everyone who is very active is a teenagers.
Some of us arenβt ;).
And you donβt have to understand federation to use lemmy. Iβve brought a couple of gen-z ers here. Get them to download voyager. Voyger automatically suggests lemm.ee for account creation. And then you just use it like reddit. Super simple.
I don't assume all of them are.
Knowing a couple of the most active accounts. None of them are teenagers, in all cases middle aged men.
Listen teens, I'm 40. I was a niteclub bouncer in a town popular with backpackers and partying, I also did a lot of traveling and partying. I was shameless, its a miracle it didnt fall off.
When you say you fucked my mom, its childish and stupid. When I say I fucked your mom while its not likely its possible... and thats worse.
Thats usually said by people in the 9 - 13 age group now.
Most of us would post on forums as teens back in the day, so itβs 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 donβt necessarily have to be NSFW. Sometimes itβs 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 shouldnβt be blocked off, though.
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.
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14 going on 40 so it will be some spirited ebeef. No quarter will be given
Play with fire, get burned.
If you can't take it, get the fuck out.
WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE
I actually do appreciate this reminder
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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
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.)
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
Honestly as an older person it very much feels like a lot of Lemmy is under 25. It's the little things like not understanding the historical context that something from the past fits in while simultaneously telling me Im wrong about the time that I lived through.
Assuming someone to develop a sufficient consciousness of their time starting with age 10 that would mean anything before 2010.
In all practical matter, people who are 25 now, cannot have any practical recollection of the US invasion of Iraq and are only having broad ideas of the 2007 financial crisis.
That is indeed scary.
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