Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@thordis
I could be called a zillenial, but I'd rather suggest a moomin.

[ticho@mas.to]

@torstentorsten @thordis This is a very USA-centric thing - in other parts of the world, everything is shifted by a few years, although increasingly less for the newer generations, since everyone started becoming much more online, and US mannerisms started poisoning the world faster.

[kayttaja@plush.city]

@thordis huh i thought there would be more gen z

[dubikan@tooot.im]

@thordis who has that misconception?! Honestly, I'm surprised genX isn't a flat out majority. Mastodon is basically the internet we grew up with.

[hajni@theforkiverse.com]

@ReggieHere @thordis you shouldn’t group Von der Leyen with the dictators lmao

[thordis@theforkiverse.com]

@Dubikan I guess I did

[lightfighter@infosec.exchange]

@hajni @thordis Indeed we are.

[thordis@theforkiverse.com]

@mndflayr wow look I learned something today!

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@leffe @thordis

If you post something with a public setting it is visible to all servers (unless your server has blocked a particular server).

There are really important reasons why it's federated into lots of smaller servers: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers

[nartagnan@mstdn.fr]

@thordis

I was sure I was "gen Y", and that it was distinct from "millenials" but it seems not.
So Millenial here, but as I'm in France and everything is shifted, I see some similarities with gen X too.

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@thordis I was born at the statistical cusp of the boomers and generation x, which means I am about the same age as the characters in Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X.

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@thordis I'm on the cusp ("Xennial" is such an ugly word) and, apparently, there's some astrological reason why people from the year of my birth are actually more aligned with Gen Z. I'm also a child of cusp generation people raised by older parents than their cohort, so they didn't get socialized to their expected gen's values. So generational categories don't serve me well but I have a definite allegiance to one of the generations, the one I voted for.

[leffe@social.linux.pizza]

@FediTips @thordis

Calling a server forkiverse can maybe be seen as misleading. It's still part of the fediverse.

#forkiverse #fediverse

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@thordis @IanAMartin Gen X? Is that someone in X-men ?

[drferrous@hachyderm.io]

@linuxandyarn @thordis same

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@hajni

Ha! Fair point, I was just thinking of leaders of global blocs. Antonio Costa is also a boomer.

@thordis

[mitsunee@mk.absturztau.be]

@thordis@theforkiverse.com I'm still confused as to what these words actually mean, I think I've been called 3 out of those? Also been called "weird youth" by a person 1 year younger than me, so there's that I guess.

[papush_@outerheaven.club]

@thordis none of this because "generations" are just a meme humans don't have a global fixed mating season or any such thing

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@nartagnan

It was Gen Y afaik, followed by Gen Z(oomer).

Not sure why it changed, maybe a millennium thing?

@thordis

[gavin57@toot.wales]

@thordis GenX/Millennial Cusper. The Oregon Trail generation as it is sometimes called. Also Xennial, apparently.