Neurodivergent, certainly. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that a large majority of us are millenials. We've gone through this repeatedly in the internet age, changing chat or social platforms. We're the early adopters and eventually everybody on earth comes to crush it to death and then we rebuild somewhere else.
And for us Gen-X/Gen-Y folks, all the Fediverse needed to do was to say "it'll be just like the Internet in the 1990s" and we were like "HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP"
I much prefer this, our own internet, but without the "blackjack and hookers".
(I'd like to think that OUR Sex Workers are ethically sourced owners of their own means of production rather than trafficked and/or exploited by pimps or other parasitic human vermin... but one must remain vigilant.)
Which internet should I be on? The one that's ran by friends of a pedo? Or the one ran by a pedo's company? Or the one with an actual, 100% for real, CSAM-generator built into it that was too weird to get to be as much of a pedo as he wanted to be?
Let's get some more posts about spoon design, OK? I like the validation.
Ooh I remember that. That game was really popular in my friend group around 2008-ish. It spread to my work, too. Someone put a post-it note about the game by the time clock, and someone else invented a hand signal for it.
The Fediverse really seems like the late 90's/early 00's internet, before the influx of corporate silo media. So far folks here are more or less ok, and the lack of deliberate ragebait pushing is refreshing.
Never looked into it. Wonder if it was an intentional play on the idea by Lucas or just an accident of the script. But the subtle "we're ALL hypocrites" is great.
It's a very specific subset of neurodivergents, tbh. I don't see much discussion around typically geeky topics. On Reddit, if I had a fleeting thought or question about a fictional world, I had /r/asksciencefiction. On the fediverse? No such board. The answer to that is "Oh just create it", but I don't have the time or the attention span to moderate such a place.
Create the spaces you want to see, it is very low effort, then put up a post asking for others to help so they can get to it when you are not there. We rarely get problems other than spam here and there, but the small ones are extremely quiet. No one is spamming [email protected] lmao. If you have a team, you can pass it off if you get burnt out and replaced. Do not be afraid! We need a diverse array of mods, do not let us get like Reddit where too many are controlled by a handful of folks. I fully plan on releasing many of mine to a team of more qualified folks when the time comes. :)
While that may be true, for some of us the simple IDEA of maybe needing to do something in the future that you might mess up is demotivating enough to prevent action. For that reason and many others, I appreciate people like you who make things happen.
TBH this disappeared on Reddit too. All my preferred fandom subs are now cesspools, with zero depth in fandom knowledge yet weird, cultish worshipping of the material. Bigger general subs feel like bot farms.
Piefed's /c/television is 1000x better.
But the best places on the internet for that are probably the TVTropes forums, SpaceBattles, and other "surviving" fiction boards.
When it comes to "traditionally geeky topics" I might have been looking for that stuff at most other points of my life. And if somebody gets into some dorky lore discussion on here today I might participate.
But for me, and I would wager it's the same with MANY people on Lemmy, the last decade has made me very much not interested in filling my social interactions with banter about which billion-dollar global brands are the most dank.
As an example, I am still very interested in technology that I can learn about and do things with. I am very much not interested in products from tech companies.
Or in another area, I still have a soft spot for old Star Wars and especially Lucasarts games like TIE Figther and X-Wing Alliance. I will always keep my old copies of those and probably play them every several years. But I don't even know what Star Wars content is in development right now.
I don’t know probably is more that those of us on here. Don’t place much value on answers to things like that. So yeah, a different subset of neurodivergent people.
That's the killer app for the fediverse. Because non of y'all have the attention span to become a long-term influencer turned into a grifter. And I love it.
Golden age: "Let's share ideas freely and argue over semantics"
Silver age: "Let's share everything freely and jerk off to it, ignoring the ads"
Bronze age: "Let's share nothing, stream everything, visit 5 websites, and buy buy buy."
On the fediverse, we NDs are the dominant neurotypes, so technically, NTs are the neurodivergent ones here. Either way, you are now ND. There is no escape.
The "Fediverse" can never become a Nazi bar. At most, it can become Several different Fediverses that are not connected to each other anymore. Which is fine.
This is technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
Bureaucrat level up!
It’s because the other internet is ruled by tyrants and pedophiles.
Most probably nepophiles as well. Or just basically sex offenders of all categories.
Wait isn't nephophile more about liking clouds?
But I’m here, and I’m not neurodiver…ah beans
one of us
one of us
one of us
one of us
GROND
GROND
GROND
GROND!
Neurodivergent, certainly. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that a large majority of us are millenials. We've gone through this repeatedly in the internet age, changing chat or social platforms. We're the early adopters and eventually everybody on earth comes to crush it to death and then we rebuild somewhere else.
And for us Gen-X/Gen-Y folks, all the Fediverse needed to do was to say "it'll be just like the Internet in the 1990s" and we were like "HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP"
Gives me BBS era / Usenet vibes, yesss
Yes! The millenials too though. We're as nostalgic (or maybe even more nostalgic) for the 90s internet because it was our entire childhoods.
(Millennial is gen Y 😜)
Oh, yeah. I never see it used and it didn't even register. 🤦
i'm gen z(?) :3
you say that but i just saw this post about the Formulars for different kinds of rizz in my time line
I wish this would not have made sense to me, but I think I get what they are trying to say. Enough Internet for today, it makes me feel weird
No. It's not enough Internet.
It means your one with the Internet.
I for one however wish they had included some some weighted calculations.
I already told you I'm a millennial, so you already know I am too old to understand this shit. 😂
Yep! I remember message boards and the glory of bb code, when DMs were called PMs and everyone knew each other's name.
Generation has nothing to do with it. Tech literary does.
nothing? idk about that
I much prefer this, our own internet, but without the "blackjack and hookers".
(I'd like to think that OUR Sex Workers are ethically sourced owners of their own means of production rather than trafficked and/or exploited by pimps or other parasitic human vermin... but one must remain vigilant.)
unionised sex workers
lemmynsfw.com
Where it isn’t illegal and ostracized 👍
Australia
I expect they mean users on lemmynsfw.com or whatever it is.
yeah i was about to put that as a title but I didn't for those exact reasons
Well to be fair, there's not just neurodivergent people in the Fediverse.
There's also a bunch of queer people. And furries.
Also neurodivergent queer people, neurodivergent furries, queer furries, and neurodivergent queer furries. Duh.
In other words, all the cool kids.
Isn't queer technically also neurodivergent?
I see nothing wrong about this. Carry on.
The normies are self destructive.
Normie Deathwish
Which internet should I be on? The one that's ran by friends of a pedo? Or the one ran by a pedo's company? Or the one with an actual, 100% for real, CSAM-generator built into it that was too weird to get to be as much of a pedo as he wanted to be?
Let's get some more posts about spoon design, OK? I like the validation.
It does kinda make me feel slightly happy that Elon is a loser in every circle he’s ever wanted to be part of
no ad revenue, no fake internet points, we just post for the love of the game
Well said! Here, have an upvote!
I hate the game.
What is the game?
You just lost it, sorry
Ooh I remember that. That game was really popular in my friend group around 2008-ish. It spread to my work, too. Someone put a post-it note about the game by the time clock, and someone else invented a hand signal for it.
The Fediverse really seems like the late 90's/early 00's internet, before the influx of corporate silo media. So far folks here are more or less ok, and the lack of deliberate ragebait pushing is refreshing.
It's just a return to where internet access was a filter, and you didn't have Boomers on MySpace and phpBB
Boomers were not on MySpace or “phoBB”. Those were really old GenX and they mainly ended up on Facebook first.
No, myspace was elder millennials. GenX had IRC.
Yeah, that's the point. Those spaces weren't like today's Facebook because the online population was self-selected at that point.
you might be right, are normies doomed to be bombarded with shit no matter where they go? be if tv or fb
While the rest of social media is where neurotypical people go to talk with bots?
the fediverse is the internet in its most internet state
Yes - it all comes crashing down if DNS fails
also, there's no karma system and no karma farming
and we can say unpopular things without worrying about downvotes
uh
eating pizza with a fork and knife is kinda enjoyable
you get to taste more pizza per pizza, and you take your time to savor it
You also don’t get your hands dirty.
How do you feel about eating Cheetos with chopsticks?
If I'm gaming then it's a necessity.
Better than eating Cheetos with a fork, probably
Only as part of a balanced meal to include a Hawaiian pizza and a delicious cake, like a cheesecake
sounds like a fun challenge
I hate having greasy hands. I agree.
Sith, absolutes, etc. It depends on the pizza.
I've always been amused by the fact that that statement was, itself, an absolute.
Never looked into it. Wonder if it was an intentional play on the idea by Lucas or just an accident of the script. But the subtle "we're ALL hypocrites" is great.
Broccoli on pizza is nice. Just parboil it first so it doesn't burn. It gets a really nice warm, slightly earthy taste when baked on pizza.
You do you and I'm glad you enjoy it, but I'm too autistic to let broccoli anywhere near my pizza.
"Oh, but it's healthy and good for you and you gotta try more things in life an-"
I.
DON'T.
CARE.
Hmm, are you suggesting I'm not autistic enough?* 🤔🤔
I'm not gonna force you to try! I'm just putting it out there.
How about carrots?
*this is a jk
I find I have no evidence to rebut this claim.
This should be the motto of the fediverse.
It's a very specific subset of neurodivergents, tbh. I don't see much discussion around typically geeky topics. On Reddit, if I had a fleeting thought or question about a fictional world, I had /r/asksciencefiction. On the fediverse? No such board. The answer to that is "Oh just create it", but I don't have the time or the attention span to moderate such a place.
Create the spaces you want to see, it is very low effort, then put up a post asking for others to help so they can get to it when you are not there. We rarely get problems other than spam here and there, but the small ones are extremely quiet. No one is spamming [email protected] lmao. If you have a team, you can pass it off if you get burnt out and replaced. Do not be afraid! We need a diverse array of mods, do not let us get like Reddit where too many are controlled by a handful of folks. I fully plan on releasing many of mine to a team of more qualified folks when the time comes. :)
no spam, but I am not subscribed. thx!
While that may be true, for some of us the simple IDEA of maybe needing to do something in the future that you might mess up is demotivating enough to prevent action. For that reason and many others, I appreciate people like you who make things happen.
TBH this disappeared on Reddit too. All my preferred fandom subs are now cesspools, with zero depth in fandom knowledge yet weird, cultish worshipping of the material. Bigger general subs feel like bot farms.
Piefed's /c/television is 1000x better.
But the best places on the internet for that are probably the TVTropes forums, SpaceBattles, and other "surviving" fiction boards.
![email protected]
Link here
When it comes to "traditionally geeky topics" I might have been looking for that stuff at most other points of my life. And if somebody gets into some dorky lore discussion on here today I might participate.
But for me, and I would wager it's the same with MANY people on Lemmy, the last decade has made me very much not interested in filling my social interactions with banter about which billion-dollar global brands are the most dank.
As an example, I am still very interested in technology that I can learn about and do things with. I am very much not interested in products from tech companies.
Or in another area, I still have a soft spot for old Star Wars and especially Lucasarts games like TIE Figther and X-Wing Alliance. I will always keep my old copies of those and probably play them every several years. But I don't even know what Star Wars content is in development right now.
I don’t know probably is more that those of us on here. Don’t place much value on answers to things like that. So yeah, a different subset of neurodivergent people.
(Speech to text my apologies)
Also, I want to change this. I have some fandom/fictions posts in mind...
But my executive dysfunction is taking a toll. Laughs nervously.
Make it and set it up later when you feel like it. :) That's what I did.
Not really. It’s simply more authentic than Reddit. And, no ads.
Nah, I ain't neurodivergent everything else is true.
You need more vaccines /s
I may need to drink 5 shots of Tylenol everyday
Please don’t, you will get liver failure before autism
You might say that now, but each time you post on here your neuro diverges a little.
does meowing at everyone not qualify?:3
Idk
No fediverse is the internet. Meta, X etc. are not.
I support your words
Isn't that why/how the Internet was created?
Yeah, and then the corpos created platforms to bring the non-neurodivergent people to the internet.
More power to e'm. There's room for both, mostly... I think.
....HEY,somebody get 'em! They're thinking! Stop them!
That's the killer app for the fediverse. Because non of y'all have the attention span to become a long-term influencer turned into a grifter. And I love it.
I have never been so insulted and flattered at the same time. Bravo
That's the Internet in general to begin with.
...until the "money people" started getting involved.
Yup, and yup.
Golden age: "Let's share ideas freely and argue over semantics"
Silver age: "Let's share everything freely and jerk off to it, ignoring the ads"
Bronze age: "Let's share nothing, stream everything, visit 5 websites, and buy buy buy."
It would be "argue about semantics".
"argue" itself lends a negative creedence on what is likely a mild discussion. "Ponder" might be more correct
There was nothing mild about Usenet discussions, but I agree that how one might have conversations about such things can be very broad.
oh for sure!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_personality
No that’s the other Internet.
And I feel good for it. Thanks to all the folks out there who are making it happen
was this not the intended use?
Ever since I discovered this side of the internet, I love it and I'll never leave it.
Eh, there are non neuro divergents as well, there are dozens of us, I tell ya!
On the fediverse, we NDs are the dominant neurotypes, so technically, NTs are the neurodivergent ones here. Either way, you are now ND. There is no escape.
Dozens!
Sounds like a dream tbh
Yup. I fucking love it here.
I feel called out.
Not called out, seen.
Or because we got shadow banned for speaking the truth
I'm not neurodivergent (at least not any more than most), but I've been to the other Internet, and it really sucks.
Also, i can sort & filter by myself, rather than a engagement-farming corpo does it.
i do like it here :3
Sounds great TBH
I feel personally attacked.
if all there was is subscription slop. i'd choose off.
Yes? And?
Fucking absolutely.
Unlike twitler, where one neurodivergent bought their own internet.
Its beautiful
yes, and?
See, common misconception.
The "Fediverse" can never become a Nazi bar. At most, it can become Several different Fediverses that are not connected to each other anymore. Which is fine.
Yeah. But I'm afraid it might also happen that the Nazi bar gets state sponsored while others have to hide in deep webs.
Fedichan here I come
Unfortunately not all of them are. Some of them just had no home before the fediverse. That’s why Lemmy exists.
Exactly this!
Same can be said for X and trumps shithole boards
How so?
They are just as much a microcosm of societal misfit ideologies as this place, thats how
Reminder that Trump won majority vote
He had musk and his doges steal it for him. Not gonna convince me otherwise
Yes but aren't we all to some extent?
i have schizo effective bipolar disorder, am i neurodivergent?
Anyone who is not typically normal, is welcome in neurodivergent club.
Hell, even some neurotypicals are welcome in neurodivergent club, as long as they are open minded and accept us as equals/treat us that way.