@reallyguyreally @nano But for many others, especially queer youths, it is their only escape from abusive parents. Even within accepting households, finding community is critical for queer teenagers' survival and well-being, and seeking that community in person can often expose them to targeted violence. Ageist opinions about "people under 18 being too young to use social media" further alienate kids who are already socially ostracized offline. I know, because I was one of them.

Also, what are today's kids supposed to DO—they can't go outside, they "shouldn't be on the Internet", they can't hang out in malls, etc. Are they just supposed to spend 18 years of their life doing nothing but school, waiting until they graduate and are finally allowed to be people??! That's a miserable life. Perhaps we should be working on creating healthier communities for people of all ages, not trying to shut down literally everything children do to try and escape the horrors that adults have imposed on them.

@nano completely agree. it's really tough. There's so much questionable/content farm junk that is only there to feed of kids attention spans and lack of parental monitoring. IMHO.

Not that the old internet was safe by any means, but ffs, it was much much nicer and less in your face then it is now. It was a place to explore, fun websites, flash games, etc. Now it's all ads, flashy sites, subscriptions and crap.

The web used to be people. Now it's corporations.

y’know i’ve done some reflection recently and i’ve decided that children just shouldn’t be allowed on the internet until they’re 13

before you say some shit like ”but you used the internet when you were a child! thats hypocritical!"

okay but heres the thing

the internet is way different now

in the 90s and 2000s, content geared towards children was either non-existent or high quality and didn’t come near content geared towards teenagers and adults

but we’re not in the 2000s anymore. the internet just isn’t safe for little kids anymore. everywhere you look on the internet is attention span destroying, mind numbing, colourful garbage to keep kids with a constant hit of dopamine, and that is no way to grow up

go look at youtube kids and roblox, hell even regular youtube. our generation didn’t grow up with the kinds of garbage on those websites. we didn’t have morgz, mr beast, ryan’s world, cocomelon, etc

there’s a reason ”ipad kid” is a relatively modern term

@realbadawo
@boilingsteam

Better screens and performance are great but it's going to be a big battery drain specially the 1080p screen...

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3841192
source: https://twitter.com/GGG_6GG/status/1238311015806193664

Saw a cool light pattern under a bridge on my morning walk

Fixed it

@edavies @rysiek part of why i liked using mastodon is that i enjoyed looking at the local feed, and my posts being seen by people there. not only on this art instance, but also a more generalist one which has a specific ~aesthetic~ that imo attracts people i more likely would enjoy reading. i haven’t had that experience so i can’t say for sure, but i think that mastodon.social users might not get the appeal of mastodon unless they try a smaller instance right away.

Writing a paper about you

@asahi95 @testing @denzilferreira Yes, Kuketz doesn’t mention microG on the post, so I assume they are just talking about the mainline LineageOS (Not LOS with microG)

@asahi95 It’s a natural process, you start loving google, then hating it, then loving microsoft, then hating both

Btw, this syntax is from Pandoc’s Markdown the most featureful markdown format AFAIK

Testing Akkoma markdown

This is some code

This isn’t probably going to have a footnote[^1], who would need a footnote on a fedi post^[Probably deranged]

[^1]: Unplayable

I’m probably going to install this rom today (Google is being a little annoying without an account)

The worst part of changing roms is backing up data from all apps I use

Nintendo: we won’t make our old games available legally so you’ll need to buy them used

Also Nintendo: nooo why are you pirating our old games

@mcalel I don’t

Once upon a time there was a chat messaging service named Skype

Everyone loved Skype and would use it forever

One Skype made several bad updates and eventually people stopped using Skype

Once upon a time there was a chat messaging service named Discord

I’ve deleted my #google account!!

Pssst. Hey you! Yes you, the cutie reading this!

Dunno if you know this yet, but you're cool! ❤️

That's all, go on scrolling now 😁