Hot take that shouldn't be hot:
Younger generations are not "not on the fedi because they don't remember a time when the internet wasn't a bunch of platforms controlled by corporations".
When they're not on the fedi, it's because the fedi is full of olds with condescending attitudes towards them, and they've already found ways to survive and communicate with more like-minded people despite the platforms being shit.
@dalias This sounds just as condescending to me as if teenagers didn’t know how to block, mute and generally build their communities. Whatever platform they’re using has very similar juvenoia levels.
Millennials are everywhere, for better or worse.
@villasbc I'm not saying they can't stand those ppl and don't know how to block. I'm saying there's not a compelling reason to be in a place where there aren't already ppl they want to engage with, mostly ppl who look down on them. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/113814636850050027
@villasbc On the bright side, fedi is where most of the olds who aren't intolerable to be around can be found.
@dalias Hah yes and maybe that’s why as a zillennial I can’t see myself anywhere else, the average encounter here is so much better