72-year-old chap here. I like Reddit and my wife said I’ll probably like this platform too so she made me an account and put an app called Voyager on my phone for it (not really that good at tech, on the other hand my wife being 34 years old is really proficient).
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Can’t remember how I came across Lemmy exactly but pretty sure it was in an article posted on Reddit about alternatives when the Appocalypse started. I loved Reddit but hated the app, website and spez. As soon as I came onto Lemmy and found people talking about open source software and beans I never looked back.
Also yea of course those ages are bait.
What does “bait” even mean? I included the ages because it was relevant since younger people tend to be more tech proficient.
I said enough is enough after their API policies. The site had already gotten continuously worse over the ages. Reddit has a bad reputation, but it did, at least, have value before all that. It’s been maybe 2 years? I feel discourse here is generally better, regardless.
Just casually dropping the 38-year age gap in the marriage
It’s a brand new account, when they drop something like that it’s because they’re trolling and hoping people make a big deal about it
When the age gap is greater than her age…
But honestly at 34 you’re mature enough to marry anyone older than you.
Matters when they met.
-“Oh, back then nobody cared about that kind of stuff.”
Grade school.
Not yet it doesn’t.
You can say that when he’s 150 and she’s 120.
37 actually. She’s turning 35 in June.
Whew, I take it back then :)
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I stopped using reddit during the API protests. I refuse to use their app due to ads.
I found lemmy as an alternative mentioned somewhere and decided to try it out. It fulfills the idle sitting on toilet and arguing with strangers on the internet I used reddit for before.
Some reddit communities I was a member of are not active here, but they were not my primary use.
I left and deleted my account because of this. Joey RIP. RedReader is alright, but it doesn’t come close to Joey for me. I really only use it to view reddit without the eyesore of the website and the headache of the app whenever I randomly click a reddit link. I have zero desire to join reddit again, Lemmy suits my needs and has plenty of great apps.
For me it’s wasn’t just about the ads, but that the official app is terrible compared to the great third-party clients out there.
Instead of shitting the bed and charging abusive API rates to the third-party apps developers, they could have just made the use of third-party apps require a Reddit Premium subscription at the end-user level. That way they’d have solved the inability to display ads to third-party users by making them pay, and third-party devs could have kept doing their thing without worrying about a hefty API bill.
But instead they chose to be a bunch of dickwads and alienate the devs and give the middle fingers to their most loyal userbase. I left my 16 years old account dormant since.
That was entirely the point unfortunately.
I saw someone mention Lemmy. I sort of switch between them now. Reddit has MORE information when I want to look up something specific. But for causal scrolling, it’s just got too many ads. And shadow banning for luigi
theres revanced extended patches for the reddit app to remove ads and such
Someone from Reddit said they were making the jump to Lemmy and started a server.
Gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8
Actually had to laugh at this bait. Well done!
What bait?
Someone mentioned it on Reddit, looked it up, and now I’m here!
Same, during the blackout for me.
Last year I finally decided that I wanted to join social media, so I literally just Googled “social media sites” “new social media sites” and “sites for posting art/sites for artists” and I signed up on most of them. Lemmy was one of them!
I was browsing a sub and one of the comments had their content removed and replaced with something along the lines of “deleted all content, moved on over to lemmy and don’t forget spez was a mod on jailbait.” Instantly checked lemmy out and I’m now here. So anyone that removed their comments with links to lemmy, it works. Much better and reminds me of the forum days. When there was actual discussion on the internet.
Wait a minute, you are 72 and married a 34 year old? WTF
While it is a big gap I never understood the internet’s obsession with age and dating. If they’re both over 21, they’re both adults and can do whatever they want man
Sure, they’re allowed to, and we’re allowed to comment that it’s weird when he brings it up unprompted. Which it is. So much so that I wonder if this is just bait that we all fell for.
I don’t want to sound like a creep (and I wouldn’t think this guy was one if this was actually real) but if my wife was 38 years younger than me I’d find a way to shoehorn that fact into every interaction I had.
“How old do you have to be for a senior ticket? Oh, I qualify then because I’m 72 but my wife will have to pay full price because she’s 34.”
21 seems to be a weird age to draw the line. Are you from somewhere where you aren’t legally an adult before 21?
Not the same guy but even where i love it’s 18 but even I couldn’t think about dating someone below 21 they’re practically like kids still to me and I’m only 30, still don’t think I would go as low as 21 myself though that still seems too young for me haha.
Same, if no one in that relationship groomed/was being predatory with the other I don’t see the problem.
I wonder if it’s one of the consequences of American puritanism.
I’d extend that to around 25 - 30 for such bigger things since around that is when brain generally finishes developing…
That’s a common urban legend. The studies following the participants and scanning their brains simply stopped once the patients turned 25. This got warped and bastardized into “the brain stops developing at 25”.
Yeah despite it being a misconception, it’s more like you start slowly dying in your mid-20s as opposed to that being a definitive age of maturity.
We’re all slowly dying due to the passage of time
There’s kind of a tipping point when you reach physiological maturity then start (slowly) degrading
55m here.
When I’d post on Reddit and started getting nothing but bots or trolls, or both I started to lose interest in it. The proverbial straw though was the API shenanigans. I used Bacon Reader on my phone, yes I know there were dozens of us, and the mobile Reddit app was crap.
So I did what any Gen’xer who was there at the dawn of the internet does… I searched for an alternative. Lemmy was one that kept popping up.
Been here ever since. Not sure how long ago that was no, 3 years? 4? I’ve slept since then.
Reddit has also started to feel quite… empty lately. Even on the popular posts for example all the comments are more or less a variation of the same thing.
Mastodon
Post-latest-US-election, when the feeds got somehow even worse and more doom-scrolly than before even on my curated lists. This was still before people were getting banned for upvoting comments.
Someone posted open source alternatives and while I was never big into Mastodon or other social substitutes I found Lemmy as a parallel to Reddit and eventually made the jump. Haven’t looked back since and am far mentally better off for it 😄 /genuine
I left Reddit after API protests, but that’s not where I found it. I was just lurking around elsewhere. Then at one point on Twitter, SDF posted about running a Lemmy instance, so I tried joining it.
Hence the username, I thought this was an SDF’s thing so I used my SDF UNIX username, user224, instead of my regular lukmly013.
user224 was also unintentional, since I intended to use lukmly013, but someone, a user name xiled, has verified my account for free giving me more access. And thus I had to keep the username, originally meant just for testing purposes.
It would otherwise be just $1, but via PayPal which I am unable to use. I even got shadow-banned for cases when guest payments are allowed in my country. And I am not going to make an account for a barely functional service (PayPal).
