There are teenagers on the fediverse.

While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word, the people who are good at technology, usually are very good at it.

"Young people bad!" This paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of the post.

There's neither women nor non-adults on the internet.

Maybe, but I was on the internet as a teen and that went fine, being careful is a general thing in life.

But more importantly: adults have a phone and use it during work ALL the time. So I’m not so sure about the average age of the people commenting on here.

I was smarter than the rest of you all when I was a teen. It wasn't until I became an adult did I get this stupid.

WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE

Some are easy to spot because they don't understand that being apologetic has little to do with apologizing, for example. 😅

Ew, gross

Most of us would post on forums as teens back in the day, so it’s hypocritical to try to keep them from doing it too. The only places we should run them off would be communities we specifically make for adults. They don’t necessarily have to be NSFW. Sometimes it’s just nice to have a community where everyone is old enough that they get the same references and are in similar stages in life.

General music and hobby related communities really shouldn’t be blocked off, though.

Listen teens, I'm 40. I was a niteclub bouncer in a town popular with backpackers and partying, I also did a lot of traveling and partying. I was shameless, its a miracle it didnt fall off.

When you say you fucked my mom, its childish and stupid. When I say I fucked your mom while its not likely its possible... and thats worse.

It should not be that surprising. Many teenagers are really smart, curious and will find their way here. That said I realise your warning is well intentioned; I hope Lemmy remains a more civil place than Reddit became over the last ten years, for everyone; teenagers included.

This is actually a good thing - teenagers are known to bring niche things into popular culture! For some reason the whole of society kind of cares what they think is cool

But don’t assume everyone who is very active is a teenagers.

Some of us aren’t ;).

And you don’t have to understand federation to use lemmy. I’ve brought a couple of gen-z ers here. Get them to download voyager. Voyger automatically suggests lemm.ee for account creation. And then you just use it like reddit. Super simple.

*Are. Not trying to be a jerk if English isn't your first language. Teenagers is a plural noun.

Honestly as an older person it very much feels like a lot of Lemmy is under 25. It's the little things like not understanding the historical context that something from the past fits in while simultaneously telling me Im wrong about the time that I lived through.

Odd post, but checks out

Teenagers now get banned if they tell their age anyway: !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

As a teenager who is relatively tech-savvy and on the fediverse, can confirm. I think it's gotten to the point where even less technically inclined people can join fairly easily, but the more savvy are usually the first to flee from enshittifying platforms so we see a lot more of them here.

Surprise, surprise. Some chunk of Reddit annoyances stem from kids running around amok.

Then moderators make many stupid rules to try to increase quality and overmoderation takes hold

In short time it becomes increasingly annoying to browse let alone post to get past the anti teen rules filter. Not to mention all the young hormones commenting some stuff at you like it is school break slander or smh

One can always change instance though so it isn’t doom and gloom. The kids will have Lemmy.world and nice, enjoy it and have fun. It is the club penguin of Lemmy instances. We knew this would happen

Ah yes, of course other generations are much better with technology than today's teens.

There are* teenagers

You people still get into arguments online? Discussions, sure.. but arguments? o.O

Why do you think teens are generally stupid?

I've long assumed that many (most?) of the tankies, and of hexbear's userbase in general, are teens.

I'd say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers --- because most adults probably wouldn't have the time for that much posting.

Challenge accepted.

Play with fire, get burned.

If you can't take it, get the fuck out.

Isn't it wise to do some sort of age check before someone can access the adult subs? If this becomes a trend among teenagers, I can already see parents halting that just because of easy adult access. Pixelfed for instance has parental controls.

!teenagers@lemmy.world

I'm actually surprised that a few lemmy instances allow minors to sign up. I don't get it. It's always a liability and platforms tend to become dystopian in the name of "protecting the children" and to comply with additional laws and requirements...

Honestly I'm now thinking of migrating from lemm.ee now that I learned of it allowing minors, this instance could turn into shit because of it. Example: "we'll defederate from any mature instance because the kids can't see boob"