There is teenagers on the fediverse. Most of them don't share their age, for hopefully obvious reasons. I'd say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers

because most adults probably wouldn't have the time for that much posting.

While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word, the people who are good at technology, usually are very good at it.

most of my friends (most of which don't know the difference between a laptop and a desktop) could understand the fediverse as a concept perfectly when I explained it to them irl.

So, if you're in a really stupid argument with someone, try to remember that there is a small chance they are 14.

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[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pretty much yeah, most people assume that no one under 30 is on fedi because its "hard" to use.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

What part of the fediverse is "hard" to use?

Lemmy is easier to use than the UBB forum I started to become active on at the age of 10 that was the entry point for me being on the Internet at all. Back then we didn't have Markdown, but BBCode, and I had that figured out after a few weeks.

I think you're way underestimating young people.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I'm 19 and assumed that there are at least a few. And with that I'm correct.

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm 24 and I'm using it just fine. I'd say that after signing up somewhere and getting an app to login into, the rest is pretty simple and much similar to reddit

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With lemmy? definitely! On the mastodon side of things? no. Mastodon seems to be for german middle aged bikers now.

[–] dpflug@kbin.earth 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is Mastodon harder? (Legit question, not snark)

[–] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is more missing replies/reactions, and picking an instance is a bit harder imo. Also search is completely broken.

[–] dpflug@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

Gotcha. Less difficulty and more just not matching up with expectations.