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I'm glad people are active, but why are the most upvoted memes things from years ago? Bots? Users desperate for content?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Because literally everyone on Lemmy is 35

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

That must be why I like it more here.

[–] OhmsLawn 15 points 1 year ago

I'm a decade older, but I feel like a lot of people who left for Lemmy were active on Reddit 10-12 years ago, and have preference for the flavor of discourse of that time. As it grew, reddit became far too sarcastically meta in a lot of ways. What was once a spicy "in joke" became boilerplate. I'm not surprised at the exhumation of the old memes. It may just be a phase of some sort, a necessary reset, who knows?

[–] seaQueue 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

35 is a very young age that people in their 40ies like me envy the youth of.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, you're two years off.

Or, more likely, my parents managed to hide two years of my life from me.

That's awful sneaky of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yours, too?!

Damn them! Stealing our years with the expectation they'll get to enjoy them. Not in the cheapest retirement home Florida can offer!

[–] cashews_best_nut 3 points 1 year ago

Aww shucks, thanks. I'm actually 40 but people say I look younger since I went on a diet.