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).
Just casually dropping the 38-year age gap in the marriage
Matters when they met.
-“Oh, back then nobody cared about that kind of stuff.”
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.
✨money✨
37 actually. She’s turning 35 in June.
Someone mentioned it on Reddit, looked it up, and now I’m here!
Same, during the blackout for me.
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
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.
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’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”.
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 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.
theres revanced extended patches for the reddit app to remove ads and such
I came over when they got rid of 3rd party apps. I think there was a thread that had alternatives in it and I gave this a shot. It was and is still a lot smaller, but that comes with pluses and minuses.
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!
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.
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).I’ve been running a Mastodon server since 2017. I’ve been aware of Lemmy and Kbin, but was waiting until it was clear which platform was going to have more community. I’ve been disillusioned with Reddit for some years.
Heard about it during the API protest in July 2023.
When boost got a Lemmy client and Reddit was doing mass bans on anime communities.
I heard of federation a couple of years ago and has kept tabs on it. Suddenly there was a federated reddit and that sounded interesting so I checked it out and here I am.
Also, how rich are you?
I’m a retired plastic surgeon. Worked for both the NHS and private. Nothing mad but comfortable. Wife’s an orthodontist.
I personally found it because of learning about places like Mastodon after looking for alternatives to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & all of those social medias.
I mostly connect to Lemmy through my instance that isn’t running lemmy but connects with it, but still sometimes find myself looking on a Lemmy Site to look through posts.
