Boomers and certainly gen X/older milenials are probably more into tinkering and getting it working....it guides for zoomers with their point and click tablet/ipad interface or SaaS that need guides.

As a youth of the late 80s I know bbs, forums, etc

[–] SenorSimpai 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would not include boomers but I get what your saying. Gen z isn't a monolith though and neither is Gen x. Some people are techies and won't have a problem figuring out the fediverse. Non techie "normies" will probably get confused and write it off unless it becomes more accessible. Good thing apps are coming!

[–] MrsDoyle 9 points 2 years ago

Boomer here. I'm enjoying having to figure out how the Fediverse works, it's refreshing. It's the difference between putting a ready meal in the microwave, and cooking a delicious casserole from scratch. Yes it takes longer and you might have to look stuff up, but it's totally worth it. (My first computer was extra fancy, it had two floppy disk drives, so you could save a file without having to take the program disk out. Also the screen was amber, not green. So cool.)

[–] HomunculusRex 7 points 2 years ago

Normie millennial here, can't wait for an app!

[–] Cannacheques 2 points 2 years ago

True that, but hey I actually think that boomers et all, (we all do sometimes) kind of pulled up the ladder on that skill set if you know what I mean, like I watched so much stuff change in a negative way in my generation, decisions made by people over 30, who did it just as a money grab or in order to prevent people from becoming "competent" or "capable" at stuff.

I'm talking about everything from removable batteries to built in batteries, exposed screws on frames to plastic caps, CPU going from LGA sockets to ball grid array, supergluing plastic clips for DC power supplies, lots of little things have been done to essentially prevent people from being able to do their jobs or even fix their own things properly.

I'm an honest believer that sometimes in order to go two step forwards you may need to take one step back, because moving forwards sometimes naturally involves looking at how you would make things more approachable for the next generation, and a lot of people have purposefully done the exact opposite in order to assert dominance or simply contain others, and have inadvertently handicapped not only their own offspring, but every single person further down the line, due to their shortsightedness.

Just look at the way Japan's appliance engineers have normalized planned obsolescence of "hard to recycle" stuff, and the resulting mountain of e-waste that China, the Philippines and now the rest of the world now has to deal with.

Sorry for the long rant. Japans big conglomerates have done a shit job engineering stuff, and would make for better artists than engineers, and America being one of the largest consumer markets for many of their end products has enabled this crap.

Just my two cents.