Week 1 feels like a ghost town. Week 2 feels like old old Reddit. Week 3 feels like old Reddit. I'm content and there is content.
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Watch out! At this rate it’ll feel like enshttfied Reddit by week 5
lemmy has 30 K users by now worldwide btw, it started in late 2019 iirc. maybe we can get a million by 2030.
I always somehow assumed it's lower. Around 16 if I had to guess. We need a poll
I don't think many people on here are in highschool, I'm in my mid twenties and have always felt on the younger side here.
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Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch, I was there when it was written.
Me in my 40s
Thats above 20, so you're key demographic and not at all an outlier
Give them a break. Grandpa doesn't understand memes.
CAN YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS WRITE A LITTLE BIGGER?
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Yeah, this doesn’t make me feel like the Fediverse is full of olds at all. Im old enough to be the average user’s parent.
As a 1,000 year old vampire, I apologise for my kind skewing the average.
As a 2,000 year old prepubescent girl, I don’t know which direction I’m skewing it.
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Mastodon is the German nudist beach of social media. There’s a strong sense of camaraderie, but the average age is somewhere north of 50, and people under 40 instinctively cringe when they hear about it.
Why do you suppose this is? Are we just the only generation with the minimal tech skills needed to sign up?
Probably less about skill, per se, and more about interest. But the (still very low) barrier to entry probably does weed out a few kids.
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I doubt it. People don't mention when they're young (except in some specific cases like this). Young people can't compare things to a time they didn't live so only older people mention their age usually. I'm 17 rn been on the fediverse since 16 or maybe 15 I don't really remember.
Edit: I personally feel actively discouraged from mentioning my age (even irl i look older) not cause of safety or anything but I js feel like I'll be treated differently when people know I'm younger. Its happened quite often to me both IRL and online where I'll notice a distinct shift in tone after they know how young I am
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There are either a ton of 12 year olds on here or an ever larger number of 18 year olds.
