Things like the cool new lemmy apps and the fold phones like the Galaxy Z Flip make me really want to change but it’s tough.

Any so much of a mention of leaving iOS for android around my normie friends or family leads to weirdly aggressive responses. They want to by able to react my messages and rename the group chats in their normie iMessage. They want to be able to stalk me with their normie Find My Friends app. They react like taking that away from them is basically stabbing them in the back. It’s like I just told a hardcore Trump supporter that Biden is #1 to their face. Normies are brainwashed.

It feels like I’m trying to leave a cult. It’s like I’m trying to leave the Mormon religion. It’s like I’m trying to get off drugs when everyone I know uses.

I just want you techies to know I’m jealous of your freedom. Maybe one of these days I can get clean.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    Normie is incredibly common online in general. It’s not just relegated to weird right wing sites either.

    I’m in my mid 30s and even I gotta say… you sound a bit like “old man yells at cloud” with this take. Just chill out a little bit. You’re making the rest of us approaching-middle-agers look bad.

    And if you’re somehow younger than me then I gotta say… actually, keep it up. Your apparent lack of being terminally-online (oh no, I used a recently coined term…) is definitely healthier than whatever the fuck the rest of us are doing.

    • estoypoopin
      2•1 year ago

      I would love to give off “old man yelling at clouds” energy. If I had a lawn, I’d yell at people to stay off it, but sometimes very quietly so I can eavesdrop on their drama.
      I don’t see normie used online often, and OP was clear it was meant to be mildly insulting, along the lines of basic:

      Oh, what’s a better word to describe someone who is super mainstream and only likes something if other people like it or they were told to like it?

      Is it yelling at clouds to remind people to be nicer to each other?

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        You guys are three levels deep debating whether or not a slang word is acceptable to use to use. I’m afraid none of you qualify, if anything you are the total opposite side of the spectrum from yelling old man.

        I’m going to need more being offensive and talking about how things use to be much better. Something like this:

        Back in my day people weren’t so sensitive, people used whatever words they wanted and nobody cared or said anything about it. I didn’t hear my first debate on whether or not a word should be used until I was 30 years old. Now you can’t even add ie to the end of norm without some whippersnapper writing a 30 page buzzfeed article about it.

        • estoypoopin
          1•1 year ago

          oh my god you’re right. I need to go find my grouchy pants (they sit somewhere just below my chin) and get on that…

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        I let people play on my lawn just to bring balance to the universe. Unless they don’t clean up their dog’s shit. Then old man mode erupts.