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
there’s 2 kinds of people on fedi:
40 year olds who remember the good ol days of the interwebs
16 year old queer shitposters who got tired of getting called every slur imaginable on other networks
both are into linux
Oh, so that’s why i see so many queer people on Mastodon.
you forgot the 3rd kind
Russian bots
also into linux
Isn’t that something else? No matter where you are on the planet, if you know technology, you despise Windows.
Always has been.
Well, since 1978 or so.
Almost no one was into Linux back then though
Oo-ooh I use Linux just for kicks, now
I’ve been using it since 1996, now
Might be larger now, but I use it still
Do Linux Russians also wear fancy socks?
Only secretly!
Not so sure, Putin was spotted voting on a unactivated windows computer (so several of my colleagues told me yesterday, haven’t verified that claim).
dont i remember there were no cables running to the monitor
Was it cake?
It was a lie, that much for sure.
Luckily it is typically too small to be much of a bot target. I don’t subscribe to world news subs though, dark places.
It’s usually only the news subs. But if you make claims that counter Kremlin propaganda you can sometimes summon them.
Like if I just say Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine, it won’t (why? Beats me). But if I say they are killing ethnic Russian Ukrainian citizens as well as Ukrainian men, women, and children, then we have a good chance.
I got others if it doesn’t work.
Edit: (WITNESS ME! Lol) Edit 2: Now I’m impressed. I knew I could do it, I didn’t expect it to work quite so well. I’ll check back in a few hours.
“People disagreeing with me are bots”
If they’re getting paid to do it, they’re just meatbots.
…Do you unironically believe people are getting paid to be on lemmy?
That old cartoon show “Metabots” but they’re people in a computer cave lol
Why you people always gotta take everything as black and white. I use “bot” interchangeably with “shill.”
Edit: I see no one found the humor with switching the actual thing that is black and white in his statement (“Everyone I disagree with”) with the “bot” and “shill” thing.
“shill” implies payment, Lemmy is just way too under the radar for that kind of engagement
And by the time you have shills the network will be drowned in LLMs already. The latter hasn’t happened, it’s pure paranoia to think the former is anything to be concerned with.
They’ve got an entire instance!
And that’s just the “nice” one that people still federate with.
I think you meant to say 40 year old queer shitposters
the 3rd kind is people too toxic for reddit and got banned
Queer less than 25 here, I came here not because I was getting called slurs but because I’m tired of companies and of AI, I’m also on Linux :3
Good man(/woman/person/other-identity-that-represents-you)!
I’m 60 and was tired of companies before you were born, AI is just the same shit served on a different cracker, I’m also on Linux :)
I’m a Luddite who discovered this shit inadvertently, and still doesn’t actually understand how any of it works
But you’re correct in that I’m pushing 50
I have to use Windows at work now, which is ass.
Anyway, I had a question about how to achieve something in Powershell the other day, so I asked it on Mastodon. Got basically nothing in response.
Every time I ask how to do something in Linux I get swamped with responses.
Make of that what you will.
I use powershell on linux, it’s on AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/powershell
I write scripts on my linux machine then run them on windows workstations
I can be a 40 years old queer friendly tired of being called slurs wanting to go back, with a mindset of a 16 year old…
I am in my mid-30s i will have you know!
I run Arch, btw.
I’m flattered that you think I’m 16 and didn’t just turn double that this month c’:
Excuse me, I’m not 40 for a few more years yet tyvm!
Third kind (the only people I know from real life who use the fediverse): Tech/math enthusiasts, usually grad students (who are also into linux)
What about us 20 somethings who vaguely remember the good ol days as they were fading away?
Where do fifty-something furries fit to this?
In the corner, facing the wall, sweating profusely while they think real hard about their submission/humiliation fetish.
We know all IT departments are primarily composed of furries, so it’s just a branch of number 1 really.
LGBT40+
I feel called out
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.
I can’t understate how much I love this art
I think you mean overstate? Otherwise you’re saying that you don’t really like it at all.
Yeah, overstate. But I will still leave the comment unedited
It’s ok, we overstood you. But yeah, pmjv is a fucking genius.
What did I do this time?!
Me 😉
Don’t you remember?
lel!
Yes, bow to me, the grand architect of geocities Dragon Ball Z pages.
I personally blame the iPhone. Shit all started going downhill from then
It was supposed to make everything better, we were sure of it.
We were horribly wrong. Sorry.
Come now, at least half of Mastodon/*key users are genderqueer twentysomethings who are mind-bogglingly good with computers.
Then there’s me a 30 something woman for whom computers dislike working
as if Captain Lezbian could ever not fit perfectly into the fediverse.
Dozens of 'em.
Like the comment said, half.
The two genders of fedi
It’s OK, we can accept them as honorary members
But yet still have no idea how they work beneath the GUI. 😉
I mean, that’s verifiably false. Most of the ones I follow are in fact building the GUI.
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.
Accurate.
I’m 39 and 3 months, thankyouverymuch, so I DO NOT fit the demographic!
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Ditto
Team sport 😬
Uhhh Go Team !!! (insert hey mickey gif) lol
Go Sports!
Ditto.
sensual pottery scene
Hahaha
sensual pottery scene
Would that be a male or female version?
I winced.
Is your back giving you trouble, too?
not accurate
As a call center employee, the most inexplicably difficult part of my job is asking an older person to navigate to our website. When I give them the 9 letter address, it almost always results in a google search for them and the ordeal of having them try to pick out our website from the sponsored results brings joy to advertisers everywhere.
Never thought I would say we need to decentralize the Internet
Lawyer: You can’t divorce your wife, just because she’s a bit odd.
Micky: I said, she’s fucking Goofy!
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
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?
Well, we went from shitposting in niche, independently run, forums, to doing it on corporate platforms that spy on you. So I don’t think that the shitposting itself is necessarily the issue here
I’m done with corporations. Fuck them
Hey now, the real benefits of shitposting were the bans we got along the way.
We gave it all to spez by abandoning all the little crappy forums because they were kinda crappy.
A lot of forum admins just got old. It’s more like the IT nerd boomers and gen-x built the internet. They were middle age when we were kids. Most of us whippersnappers were being babysat by them.
Good luck convincing any normie on the internet today that it was actually a boomer who built the world wide web. All they see is tech illiterate old people who only made the world worse. And for some reason gen-x doesn’t exist to them.
Not 40, but also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization, whether that be by selling my data for profit, training an LLM with my data, or contributing to an inescapable network effect that can be increasingly monetized by various means.
The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.
also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization
I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.
I’m more paranoid about how many accounts are bots than about some data aggregator getting my dumbshit hot takes as training data.
Equal access for all is still better than one company controlling access to my content for the purposes of monetization.
I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.
That’s why we’re here. To fu k with the scrapers and poison the training 🙃
Dw, the corpos are using bots to scrape and categorize your thoughts and comments anyway.
don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization
(…)
The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.
This is so much more important than whatever elitism OOP implies.
I’m also not 40 btw.
Coming here for discussion and meme dopamine, Lemmy still has that intact. Reddit has killed it with bots, ads, and some heavy duty corporate lean on things.
r/castiron, dominated by Lodge Corpo as one example. Other “suggestions”, too early in the day to recall more names right now, are in a parrot circle of replies for brands, as above.
You can’t trust it as much, which is why, in part, people are here instead. More old, old Reddit feels, you know, before it became cool and was thus inevitably ruined.
