To my American eyes and English speaking self, I assumed it was associated with communism. (I don’t think it’s bad or anything.)

You’d have to show who specifically was yelling. You see everyone from all instances they’re federated with. They might not have even been from Lemmy.world.

Edit: Case in point, I’m from programming.dev

I think you’re drastically underestimating how even small steps like that can tune a ton of people out. If they’re only sort of on the fence about it it might be enough to make it not worth it. Or maybe they’ll think they’ll check later but never get around to it.

but no one wants nor expects to have to do significant research and make a decision about how they want to interact with a social media site before they’ve even started using it.

Then just directly recommend specific, general purpose instances to people.

How do you know your accounts weren’t part of a ban wave? It doesn’t necessarily mean they linked them through your phone.

Because your eyes can adjust the image one of two directions, lighter or darker. It’s just that the people started saying “blue and black” before/more often than “blue and dark brown” or something. Plus it’s just easier to say.

Millennials are not in their 40s. The oldest of them are, sure, but a ton are still in their 30s.

But aren’t you just in my camp, maybe?

Yeah, the blue/black camp.

No, I don’t think people were exaggerating. It’s a very weird optical illusion that branches to different outcomes for people. I was only ever able to see the white/yellow once by looking at it upside down and slowly revealing more of the dress from the bottom. Other illusions like that spinning ballerina are easier to flip in your mind or at least understand why people see it the other way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer

I’m not lumping you into with anyone. I’m just explaining how people use the term boomer.

How do you figure? Suppose they’re just like us. There would still be twice as much media and history to look into.

Please seek therapy or counseling. If your concern that a war is on the horizon is affecting you this much then we aren’t qualified to help.

She goes to a different school.

Both millenials and boomers get hate for being terrible parents and workaholics, and the hate gen z is currently getting for having no work ethic sounds very similar to the hate gen X got back when they were in their 20s for being supposedly lazy and stupid becuase of MTV.

Millennials were definitely called entitled and lazy.

Boomer is honestly just used as a generic term for older people who are out of touch in one way or another. Millennial was a generic term for young people the speaker didn’t like, but it’s finally been replaced by zoomer which is more age appropriate, but it took a long time. It’s not that people are ignoring Gen X, it’s that most of the time when people use the term they just mean older/younger people in general.

TLDR, Gen X is probably lumped in with the term “boomer” (obviously the context matters, but this is the TLDR).

You’re in the blue and black camp. I get what you mean, it’s sort of a yellowish brown, but that’s why the illusion is there in the first place. Some people’s brains adjust it to a more yellow color instead of more of a black/dark brown.

It’s not semantics, it’s a joke following the same structure as the comic

Btw I use Arch.

X-Files theme

Zero. I think one lives near me based on some posts they made (as in near the same major city, could still be hours away). Another mentioned going to the same convention I go to every year but it’s a massive convention that brings in people from all over the world. The two friends I have that used RIF is fun for Reddit back in the day switched to the official app instead of trying alternatives.