I'd say solidly GenZ. Thinking that everybody else is stuck in the vortex of lies but you have now broken free by [doing something only marginally different]. The kind of idealism you see in youth. Fediverse apps help with some of the problems we see in other social media, but ultimately it's a new diet, same shit.

[–] itsralC@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ironically Plato takes this into account in his allegory. There are lots of levels to "knowledge" (which he equated with goodness); we could be in the same spot just with our heads turned, or right behind the wall, or outside the cave but looking at the reflections in the water. And in each stage everyone believes they're right and that they know the truth (except maybe in the last one). Honestly I think with fedi we just managed to turn our heads.

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago

We did. Keep in mind that the explosion of growth on Lemmy is mostly made up of people that lost their apps due to the API rule changes, the ones that were opinionated and engaged enough to be selecting a 3rd party solution. So, Lemmy just got bombed with the loudest and most self-righteous of reddit users that now loudly circlejerk about how much better Lemmy is. In reality, all we have is a less diverse crowd of really loud people. Same shit, different platform.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

More like someone just started their philosophy course

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Way before that. What's the generation for 400bc called?

[–] Uncle_Iroh@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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