• 𝐘Ⓞz҉@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bro get people from reddit to use Lemmy. Create guides for boomers so that they know how to register and navigate lemmy

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      1 year ago

      Boomers and certainly gen X/older milenials are probably more into tinkering and getting it working…it guides for zoomers with their point and click tablet/ipad interface or SaaS that need guides.

      As a youth of the late 80s I know bbs, forums, etc

      • SenorSimpai@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I would not include boomers but I get what your saying. Gen z isn’t a monolith though and neither is Gen x. Some people are techies and won’t have a problem figuring out the fediverse. Non techie “normies” will probably get confused and write it off unless it becomes more accessible. Good thing apps are coming!

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      1 year ago

      Create guides for boomers

      lol. Babyboomers and Gen X invented and built the internet. We programmed VCR’s and could navigate dial-up settings for v90modems. Maybe write a guide for gen Z, as anything more complex than a swipe is too much technology for them XD

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        1 year ago

        I feel there’s more nuance to this and this is an inaccurate and disingenuous generalisation.

        A very small portion of baby boomers and gen x were involved in this compared to the masses who simply exist as sheep.

        The “enlightened” ones are a minority in every generation from what I can see.

        I also feel this whole my generation > your generation is just another mechanism of segregation. Instead let us bring forth our collective knowledge of setting VCR times and laugh about getting to the last floppy/stiffy disk in a set and finding corruption because… magnets.

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        1 year ago

        Heck, genXers are the only generation who can set the clock on a VCR. A skill now lost to time and technology.

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          1 year ago

          It really is just Gen Z. Millenials were programming shit and bashing everything together with hardware and software adaptors as kids. Gen Z grew up in the world of the slick interface that just works.

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              This misconception comes from the fact that gen X were basically the first crowd to be the bulk of the Internets at the dawn of it, and all of them were technically proficient enough to do it, so there is a bias: you had to know something about computers to be on the internet. Nowadays you don’t need to know anything, the barrier is virtually non-existent and basically anyone can do internets with their phone and some “app” without knowing anything at all about how it works or how to setup a connection or even type an address.

              Most of us were and are pretty dumb when it comes to technology or even problem solving, nothing changed in that regard.