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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.

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[โ€“] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

24 (approximately)

Doesn't take much knowledge to find Lemmy, I like a topic-based forum, not some influencer-follower twitter like shit... I don't like "following" "people"... I want to talk about stuff not people... was on Reddit... and just have a burning hatered for authoritiarians and bullshit like: "AUTOMODERATOR: OPPSIES YOUR KARMA ISN'T ENOUGH.." or "YOUR POST HAVE BEEN AUTOMATICALLY REMOVED"... and a desire for freedom.

Techical Knowledge? Idek how to do coding lmao...

Never knew what internet was like in the "Good Ol' Days" or whatever y'all are talking about, my first glance at the internet was in 2010

[โ€“] jtzl@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

Internet in the "good OK days" was very (^1000000) slow.

But, on the bright side, sales funnels didn't exist

I think you could summarize by saying: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."