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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva I'm in my early 30s, for whatever that's worth, and I mainly use the Fediverse for posting cute art I make, or at least that's what I use Friendica, Mastodon, and Pixelfed for primarily.
The Fediverse is sorely missing a DeviantArt equivalent, though, as I've effectively abandoned my 16-year-old DA account at this point; I'm keeping it around for posterity, but I'm no longer actively posting there and haven't really been active there for years now.
I recently updated by bio on there to acknowledge this and point to the places where I actively post now, those being Blacksky, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Friendica.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva@mastodon.social
As a 30 y.o. Brazilian, I'd add that there's breadth of nationalities as well, even though most Fediverse instances are often biased to a defaultist, US-centric worldview.
And such an existence of biases leads me to a point of your post:people finding their communities
Which, unfortunately, haven't been my case. Even when it comes to the aspect that has been the most important of my existence in the recent years, spirituality, those who could share a similar (syncretic) belief seem to be mostly at Facebook, TikTok and Telegram, platforms I permanently left a long time ago.
It seems to me, at least this is my sensation when I browse Lemmy and Mastodon, that the Fediverse userbase mostly leans towards either atheism or mainstream beliefs.
Add the inherent discrete nature of occultism and finding Gnostic/Lilithian/Thelemite/Luciferian/Goetian/etc kinship is like trying to find a "Dark Forest" (a nod to the "Dark Forest Hypothesis") within a light-millennia worth of cosmic void, a forest in a planet where the atmosphere may not even allow the kind of spaceship I'm aboard (a Lucifer-centered circle I used to participate, for example, didn't accept my transition to a more syncretic, Lilith-centered belief).
Also add the fact that I do not fully belong to any specific label (notice how I listed several belief systems in my previous paragraph, followed by the "etc"; that's because my belief borrows from each of those systems, plus other belief systems and pantheons I didn't extensively mention, some are said to be "dead religions" and/or "mythologies" nowadays, such as Sumerian where Ereshkigal is described), that I don't fully take an entire "worldview pack", instead borrowing from several "worldview packs" to build my own idiosyncratic worldview, and I'm kind of fated to belong nowhere at all.
Sometimes I become too frustrated with how my content in the Fediverse is mostly met with silence or hollow/numeric reactions, but then I remember it's not exactly the Fediverse to blame, it's simply because I've been in the wrong places. But then the "correct places" don't even seem to exist, at least when it comes to the entirety of my worldviews in all of their depth and breadth.
I mean, I know a few Sumerian cuneiforms and words (from dingir/digir "a divine name" to uš "death" and mušen "bird"), it doesn't mean I'd be able to fully live in Akkadia if the city still existed today. Similarly, I've been studying owl-centered ornithology a lot lately, it doesn't mean I fit Lemmy's superbowl community whose focus is mainly scientific (while mine is esoteric, with strigiformes, as I believe, being one of the zoomorphic manifestations from Stolas (a teacherly prince, knOWLedgeable of astronomy) and, most importantly, Mother Queen Lilith).
So, I'd say people finding their communities is not a certain aspect of the Fediverse, even the current Web as a whole, a digital mirror of a world where things have been so polarized... -
@blogdiva I'm 64.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva I'm here for bird photos, Linux, and people who know what "ttrpg" means.
Arise, ye nerds!
And I am over 65.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva I'm 39 and trying not to have an emotional breakdown about the idea of hitting 40 in less than a year
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
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@blogdiva I'm 39 and trying not to have an emotional breakdown about the idea of hitting 40 in less than a year
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva let's get some data on ages of fediverse users:
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@blogdiva I'm here for bird photos, Linux, and people who know what "ttrpg" means.
Arise, ye nerds!
And I am over 65.
@c_merriweather @blogdiva it sounds like you are in the right place
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@blogdiva I'm 64.
@IveyJanette @blogdiva would not have guessed! Aren’t we all very mature, well read, knowledgeable 27 yr olds? (I’m 58)
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@blogdiva I feel the #fediverse is comprised of people whose only agenda to push is knowledge.
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@blogdiva let's get some data on ages of fediverse users:
@lobsterofrevenge @blogdiva how much is that in Freedom Units?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
Now at 60. Left birdsite when EM bought it. Not on FB. Joined Mastodon during Nov 2022 rush. I love #bloomscrolling and found @JohnAltringham and his fantastic art, rejoined up w other science artists ( @artologica ) who left EM site, scientists and ID folks. Love it here. (Also on BS for now too).
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@lobsterofrevenge @blogdiva how much is that in Freedom Units?
@rostnicht @blogdiva about 500ml, depending on the length of the movie
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@blogdiva let's get some data on ages of fediverse users:
@lobsterofrevenge @blogdiva My age overflowed and is currently -29472184 years
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
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@Alison Luddites were fighting for labor rights and the redistribution of wealth thru social services for those who didn't have jobs because of the machines, and as higher wages and business ownership for those who were left to work with the machines. they smashed the machines not because they were bad but because capitalists were using them to harm people FOR PROFIT.
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