Mastodon toot:
Daniel Lakeland @[email protected]
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
Fuck that. I don’t regret it. We built the world wide web from nothing for everyone and had it fucking stolen by rich assholes who put our community resources WE developed behind ads and paywalls. Unlike those uncreative hacks we have the talent to take it back.
Come now, at least half of Mastodon/*key users are genderqueer twentysomethings who are mind-bogglingly good with computers.
Yes, bow to me, the grand architect of geocities Dragon Ball Z pages.
Unfortunately as a younger gen z i need to supplement my Fediversing with traditional social media unless i want to have humor of a previous generation and get obliterated at school. I wish there was a greater variety of people on here
Nah, join the dark side. There will soon be a day when you can’t understand the young ones anyway. Why not today?
Bring them here, we promise not to be awkward!
Speak for yourself I promise to be awkward as daisy dukes on a crusty old fart with droopy balls.
We shall bring the weird gen Z here so they can “match your freak” as the kids say these days.
I’ve been here for three years. Weirdest Z in the gen.
Older gen z here, doing my part
I personally blame the iPhone. Shit all started going downhill from then
I would say I like it here, imo the format and overall technology is perfect. I am always impressed by how little battery and data voyager uses compared to all the other bloated apps on my phone.
Having said that, I am disappointed that even without feeds and algorithms, it has become a lot more rage inducing and depressing then I would have hoped for.
There is just so many things that affect my life in a negative way being shown here, can’t a guy get a little ignorant bliss about nerdy topics? Or long, deep discussions comparing the philosophies of niche hobbies?
And 30+ year old people who enjoyed the good times while they lasted and are now nostalgic?
Did we build the world wide web or did we just shitpost for the lulz for decades without realizing we gave all the benefits of our shitposting to Mark Zuckerberg?
Never thought I would say we need to decentralize the Internet
It was supposed to make everything better, we were sure of it.
We were horribly wrong. Sorry.
In our defense, corporations ruined the world wide web. It still has so much potential if they weren’t involved.
Hell yeah, my geocities Nine Inch Nails fan site helped build the Internet
Lemmy feels very gen z ish though.
People on here think too highly of themselves and the Fediverse. The overwhelming majority of people here don’t know the basics of programming and of the few that do, the vast majority of them don’t make any contributions. Even to those who do contribute, comparing themselves or the Fediverse WWW and the people who built it rather arrogant, no?
At the end of the day, the Fediverse would be better off going through a reality check. It’s a niche alternative to mainstream social media that trades content for privacy. The tech is neat and the idea behind it is noble, but that’s about it. It’s not going to revolutionize the internet any time soon.
Im sorry but I did not contribute to this in any meaningful way.
