I'm pretty sure the average Fediverse user is a 37-year-old male working in tech or IT.

I JUST turned 30 last month, does that count?

Mostly I wanted to emphasize that we aren't all borderline literal children here, but yes, the average age is probably higher.

Hang on, give me a second to get up

I got a new knee brace today, took it for a test walk with the dog. Seemed fine. Knee didn't betray me, which was nice.

How you doin'?

I, too will be approaching 50 in a couple years...

And a couple years after that.

And a few more years after that.

And maybe several more afterwards, as well.

Eternal September is real.

I miss the old internet. I feel we lost so much along the way. It was wild, but it didn't feel like everything just existed just to sell you something. Or sell your data.

What is the sign up process like now on something like X or TikTok, phone verification via text message? I might think selfie, but they probably assume you will post those anyway so they don’t even need to ask.

What? I did just "sign up".. What did I miss??

I know for some folks it's a barrier, but this always sounds weird to someone whose registration experience was "haha, funni name" ➡️ types in two fields and presses one button ➡️ fediverse citizen.

Edit: it is somewhat more complicated these days, in that there are now three fields and a captcha.

I never had this happen on lemmy. Granted I dont post much at all.

Downvoting because Thanos.

In my 40s

AC literally worked for the CIA, and once in always in. Also was a Vanderbilt. Not to be trusted.

The soccer mom moms were first checking to make sure it was a safe site, since Anderson Cooper had recently at the time said it was a site for pedophiles.

I mean, it literally was at one point, considering that r/jailbait was massive.

And your instance doesn’t even have hexbear.

No, no, there's definitely an at-least college-age level of idiocy going on in political topics.

I know you are, but what am I?!

Where did you go?

Reddit, and primarily game forums and Tumblr before that. I was but a sprout myself at the time, though.

It came to me in a dream

[Someone polled the ages before.] (https://plush.city/@fluffy/111053815913138017)

They also made this chart.

[Source] (https://beesbuzz.biz/articles/5821-The-average-Mastodon-user-age)

One of the more disappointing things about growing up was when I realized that "adult" is an illusion and that all the adults I had looked up to as a kid, were pretty much just big babies doing their best in life while often not really knowing what the fuck they were doing. Cobble that with unresolved issues from childhood that has manifested in stunted growth in different areas and there you go.

We are all kids. The only thing that changes except out bodies, is that we gradually learn to deal with the challenges life throws at us so what is insane at 20 is not so insane at 30 and what is difficult at 30 is not that hard at 40 etc etc.

In some ways, it is a relief to know that there is no end stage. You are a kid for life and you learn for life.

A lot of people basically peak in highschool and dont mature much past then. Pretty jarring for people just approaching their 20s who are used to a pretty regular maturity curve in themselves and their peers from ages 0 to 18

Good way to put it. TBH I get the feeling middle schoolers post a hell of a lot more often than older people here.