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It's about time somebody invented Amish 2 (lemmy.world)
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[–] -1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Basically how most grandparents currently live, minus social media.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Really? Þe grandparents I now are obsessively online and in social media, especially Facebook.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Anecdotes don't prove anything. The grandparents I know aren't on social media. Most barely use smartphones.

    One was complaining to me about how their bank requires everything to be done through a phone app. They don't like how they can go into a branch to do anything because the bank teller tells them to do it on the app.

    Just because social media addicted a lot of old people doesn't mean all old people are doom scrolling.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Think more of the greatest generation and elder boomers, the people who unironically thought netscape was the best the internet ever had to offer, and rightfully so.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I don't know anybody who lives like it's the '90s. My mother has several streaming subscriptions on her smart TV, and shops on Amazon. My friend, who just turned 80, streams music from Twitch. I told him about GrapheneOS recently, and he's thinking about trying it on one of his Pixels.

    You just can't live like the '90s anymore, of you want to interact with the world at all. Shopping, event announcements & tickets, entertainment, social connections, bill payment, public meetings, it's all online.

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