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Is the fediverse assessible to the boomers/computer illiterate? What's the most boomer friendly serv (lemmy.perthchat.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/219612

Boomer in like Facebook/tiktok is their final technology frontier.

My friends/circle (ages 19 - 72): 95% don't know how to set up Adblock on desktop. 20% only use computers once a week. 5% use shortcuts like copy and paste. 30% of them buy iphones bc they find android too hard too bother with (I agree with this). 1% struggle with basic concepts like knowing if they are posting a status or DMing someone. Tho 10% trade stocks by themselves, so with sufficient motivation they could learn.

I have onboard 1 person irl and I had to walk them through it.

I rate the fediverse as 0/10 for assessibility to boomers but have not tried the whole fediverse

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[–] Peter1986C@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I suspect (but never tried to test this) that the fedi in its current form mostly targets the ideologists (left and right), the tech savvy and (when generalising a bit on age) Gen X and younger. Ideally this would not be the case but right now it is what it is.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is nonsense.

I've seen more young'uns whining that it's "too hard" to choose an instance. It's the young'uns that are used to things being all in one place: one Facebook, one Twitter, one Instagram, etc. The elder Gen-X/younger-Boomer crowd are all very familiar with having to make choices in service providers (because we had choices!). We had to choose telephone service providers, Internet service providers (who weren't our telephone guys for AGES!), email service providers (often our ISPs, but not always: also our work environments, and third-party suppliers once we'd gone through the change-the-ISP-email dance often enough), etc. etc. etc.

The young'uns are the ones that flock to wherever their friends are flocking this week and have ISP choices they can count on one hand, even after a bizarre gardening accident sheared off a few fingers. Choice has been systematically removed from people in the tech sphere since I was in my teens. Fewer choices in phone configurations, fewer choices in ISPs, fewer choices in email providers, fewer choices in chat systems, fewer choices in ...

... until we have the situation where people think of social media sites instead of social media platforms.

[–] Peter1986C@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Well, if I were to remove my generalisation on age out of my comment, what would that make you think of it?

[–] altair222@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ratio of people i find through fedi who are 20+ vs 35+ (my assumption through their pfps) is 4:6 tbh

[–] Peter1986C@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

For the record, there are millennials who are now in their early forties.