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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

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Come now, at least half of Mastodon/*key users are genderqueer twentysomethings who are mind-bogglingly good with computers.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Then there's me a 30 something woman for whom computers dislike working

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

as if Captain Lezbian could ever not fit perfectly into the fediverse.

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Like the comment said, half.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

The two genders of fedi

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's OK, we can accept them as honorary members

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

There are dozens of us!

[–] Tabooki2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But yet still have no idea how they work beneath the GUI. 😉

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, that's verifiably false. Most of the ones I follow are in fact building the GUI.

[–] Tabooki2@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I'm talking at the hardware level. We grew up having to build all of our PCs and learned about bus's, SCSI, interrupts, partition tables.