Several weeks into the #TwitterMigration it seems clear to me the value of Mastodon is not that it is a Twitter replacement, but that it is a gateway technology to decentralization. Mastodon has flaws, I'm not claiming it's perfect, but many criticisms I've seen stem from expecting centralized services from a decentralized structure. It's up to us to try and explain the differences and set expectations for what alternative services can look like.
To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.
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@mcneely your toot seems to conflate age with experience of the older internet. There’s a lot of older folk who met the internet in the 2000s rather than 1990s
@scottishphil totally fair. I'm in that group but really my time on the internet mostly coincides with the rise of the big centralized internet sites like FB.
@mcneely whereas I handwrote websites using simpletext on a Mac LCII! 😂😂😂