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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva
Pretty much the same for me: I don't want to have my social interactions mediated by an algorithm that is only thinking about optimizing profit.Mastodon is a break from the ceaseless bargaining and hyper optimizations of pretty much everything else I could interact with. 99% argument free; the lack of reach is a feature, not a bug.
cc @_elena
Je ne parlez pas Francais. Tres desole.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva Perhaps show the work of some the wonderful photographers on mastodon.
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@blogdiva awww I love this liza
thank you for sharing these thoughts (and for being here!)@_elena i love that you’re out there doing the work. thank you 🥰
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@blogdiva
Pretty much the same for me: I don't want to have my social interactions mediated by an algorithm that is only thinking about optimizing profit.Mastodon is a break from the ceaseless bargaining and hyper optimizations of pretty much everything else I could interact with. 99% argument free; the lack of reach is a feature, not a bug.
cc @_elena
Je ne parlez pas Francais. Tres desole.
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@blogdiva Ha, presumably you've already seen this perfect encapsulation of the fediverse as being punk as fuck?
@stefan i wants its, i neeeeds its!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva I'm 64.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva I turned 79 this year, and I am glad to be here in the #fediverse with all of you.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva great speech! Cannot promise not to stole it
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva I’m in my mid forties.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva 74.
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@blogdiva Ha, presumably you've already seen this perfect encapsulation of the fediverse as being punk as fuck?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva I'm in my early 30s, for whatever that's worth, and I mainly use the Fediverse for posting cute art I make, or at least that's what I use Friendica, Mastodon, and Pixelfed for primarily.
The Fediverse is sorely missing a DeviantArt equivalent, though, as I've effectively abandoned my 16-year-old DA account at this point; I'm keeping it around for posterity, but I'm no longer actively posting there and haven't really been active there for years now.
I recently updated by bio on there to acknowledge this and point to the places where I actively post now, those being Blacksky, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Friendica.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva@mastodon.social
As a 30 y.o. Brazilian, I'd add that there's breadth of nationalities as well, even though most Fediverse instances are often biased to a defaultist, US-centric worldview.
And such an existence of biases leads me to a point of your post:people finding their communities
Which, unfortunately, haven't been my case. Even when it comes to the aspect that has been the most important of my existence in the recent years, spirituality, those who could share a similar (syncretic) belief seem to be mostly at Facebook, TikTok and Telegram, platforms I permanently left a long time ago.
It seems to me, at least this is my sensation when I browse Lemmy and Mastodon, that the Fediverse userbase mostly leans towards either atheism or mainstream beliefs.
Add the inherent discrete nature of occultism and finding Gnostic/Lilithian/Thelemite/Luciferian/Goetian/etc kinship is like trying to find a "Dark Forest" (a nod to the "Dark Forest Hypothesis") within a light-millennia worth of cosmic void, a forest in a planet where the atmosphere may not even allow the kind of spaceship I'm aboard (a Lucifer-centered circle I used to participate, for example, didn't accept my transition to a more syncretic, Lilith-centered belief).
Also add the fact that I do not fully belong to any specific label (notice how I listed several belief systems in my previous paragraph, followed by the "etc"; that's because my belief borrows from each of those systems, plus other belief systems and pantheons I didn't extensively mention, some are said to be "dead religions" and/or "mythologies" nowadays, such as Sumerian where Ereshkigal is described), that I don't fully take an entire "worldview pack", instead borrowing from several "worldview packs" to build my own idiosyncratic worldview, and I'm kind of fated to belong nowhere at all.
Sometimes I become too frustrated with how my content in the Fediverse is mostly met with silence or hollow/numeric reactions, but then I remember it's not exactly the Fediverse to blame, it's simply because I've been in the wrong places. But then the "correct places" don't even seem to exist, at least when it comes to the entirety of my worldviews in all of their depth and breadth.
I mean, I know a few Sumerian cuneiforms and words (from dingir/digir "a divine name" to uš "death" and mušen "bird"), it doesn't mean I'd be able to fully live in Akkadia if the city still existed today. Similarly, I've been studying owl-centered ornithology a lot lately, it doesn't mean I fit Lemmy's superbowl community whose focus is mainly scientific (while mine is esoteric, with strigiformes, as I believe, being one of the zoomorphic manifestations from Stolas (a teacherly prince, knOWLedgeable of astronomy) and, most importantly, Mother Queen Lilith).
So, I'd say people finding their communities is not a certain aspect of the Fediverse, even the current Web as a whole, a digital mirror of a world where things have been so polarized... -
@blogdiva I'm 64.
@IveyJanette @blogdiva Same!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva I'm here for bird photos, Linux, and people who know what "ttrpg" means.
Arise, ye nerds!
And I am over 65.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
@blogdiva
I'm old enough to know better
