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who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy) (self.asklemmy)

submitted 7 months ago by confuser to c/[email protected]

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I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn't see anything relating to it and I'm kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see. ive been paying attention to interactions but nothing is as good as just asking everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

You shouldn't feel to bad gen x and millennials created the web and how most tech is today. The generation after these are damn near tech illiterate. If it's not an app or buttons to click they're lost.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

This warms my geriatric millennial heart

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Technically, every generation up until now contributed to modern tech.

But anyway, even if we consider just those who did directly, I am pretty sure you should still also include boomers and even the silent generation.
Check out the computer chronicles: https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles?sort=date

Seems modern enough already.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Some boomers definitely helped in it, but do remember even the youngest boomers are 60+ now. While they did help, it wasn't anywhere near what gen x and then millennials did. Not discounting them at all. Also while yes the younger era of the net with darpa is from boomers and the silent gen, I'm more talking about what the web and tech is today. They %100 laid the foundation, we just built the rest.

[–] confuser 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

wowee is it really that bad for them? I wouldve thought since they grew up with tech that it would just be intuitive to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's on par or worse than boomers. Do remember these kids grew up with mainly cell phones, very few had to actually learn how to type and use a computer. Go to r/teachers and you will see countless stores of how far behind they are compared to each previous year. I feel like millennials and Gen X strived for the easiest and best user experience, which means less having to figure things out like we did.