Yeh seems like 90% of people here are in their 30s and 40s, myself included. I wonder what’s filtering it like that? Maybe us millennials/gen-x are just the most adept at using the Internet and computing in general, since we grew up in a time when things weren’t always so easy and instantly gratifying? Thus we are more comfortable using something that may not be as smooth or intuitive as commercial solutions. Not trying to brag. It actually IS something I noticed in real life with the younger kids. GUIs are at the point now where a three year old can use one. While I remember being 15 and trying to build a PC and still having to move motherboard jumpers around for the correct CPU bus speed and all that.
We’re used to broken, rapidly developing shit, basically. Like how the whole internet was in the 90s.
I think what’s probably filtering it is that it’s designed like the internet of yesteryear. It mimics early reddit and the forums which came before. It speaks to millennials in what we’re looking for in social media (the stuff that feels comfortable and familiar, the stuff we grew up with).
I think gen z in many ways is just as tech savvy, but more for understanding the nuances of modern applications. The user interface for things like Snapchat or Tiktok take me a while to get used to, and I was never a fan of endlessly scrolling video (or vertically filmed video, dear GOD), and yet to young people, those things are a snap and more easy to navigate than what we find easy to navigate. I learned to edit media in Final Cut Pro and Photoshop and there’s gen z kids blowing me out of the water in over-the-top production-value by using off-the-shelf apps and just their phone. It’s kind of wild how accessible media creation has gotten. I learned mine literally working at a television station, streaming kids learn it from studying online.
I think gen z is probably mostly just young and hasn’t become as jaded and cynical as we have yet about things like advertising or algorithmically manicured social feeds. They don’t see a problem with them yet because they haven’t been alive long enough to have enough bad experiences to turn them away from such systems. Even for our generation, we’re in the minority: most people our age bracket still use Facebook. We’re like the weird kids, we never stopped being weird.
I think one of the unique things about being a millennial is we are more adapted to having a lot of technology in our lives than gen x, but we also grew up with less surveillance and have watched it blow up, so we experience more paranoia than gen z. Hence the focus on privacy and FOSS. I know a few gen z’s and they have all lightly mocked me for not using Tik Tok/Snapchat “because of privacy, right?” Not that all gen z’s don’t care, but when you grow up under constant surveillance it’s hard to give a fuck, lack of privacy is the norm.
Yeh seems like 90% of people here are in their 30s and 40s, myself included. I wonder what’s filtering it like that? Maybe us millennials/gen-x are just the most adept at using the Internet and computing in general, since we grew up in a time when things weren’t always so easy and instantly gratifying? Thus we are more comfortable using something that may not be as smooth or intuitive as commercial solutions. Not trying to brag. It actually IS something I noticed in real life with the younger kids. GUIs are at the point now where a three year old can use one. While I remember being 15 and trying to build a PC and still having to move motherboard jumpers around for the correct CPU bus speed and all that.
We’re used to broken, rapidly developing shit, basically. Like how the whole internet was in the 90s.
I think what’s probably filtering it is that it’s designed like the internet of yesteryear. It mimics early reddit and the forums which came before. It speaks to millennials in what we’re looking for in social media (the stuff that feels comfortable and familiar, the stuff we grew up with).
I think gen z in many ways is just as tech savvy, but more for understanding the nuances of modern applications. The user interface for things like Snapchat or Tiktok take me a while to get used to, and I was never a fan of endlessly scrolling video (or vertically filmed video, dear GOD), and yet to young people, those things are a snap and more easy to navigate than what we find easy to navigate. I learned to edit media in Final Cut Pro and Photoshop and there’s gen z kids blowing me out of the water in over-the-top production-value by using off-the-shelf apps and just their phone. It’s kind of wild how accessible media creation has gotten. I learned mine literally working at a television station, streaming kids learn it from studying online.
I think gen z is probably mostly just young and hasn’t become as jaded and cynical as we have yet about things like advertising or algorithmically manicured social feeds. They don’t see a problem with them yet because they haven’t been alive long enough to have enough bad experiences to turn them away from such systems. Even for our generation, we’re in the minority: most people our age bracket still use Facebook. We’re like the weird kids, we never stopped being weird.
So…we’re all basically the table full of nerds playing MTG in the high school cafeteria.
Fuck, no wonder we all just… understand each other. It’s just one big table now.
I think one of the unique things about being a millennial is we are more adapted to having a lot of technology in our lives than gen x, but we also grew up with less surveillance and have watched it blow up, so we experience more paranoia than gen z. Hence the focus on privacy and FOSS. I know a few gen z’s and they have all lightly mocked me for not using Tik Tok/Snapchat “because of privacy, right?” Not that all gen z’s don’t care, but when you grow up under constant surveillance it’s hard to give a fuck, lack of privacy is the norm.