Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

@thordis Xenniel here. Not quite Gen X. Not quite Millennial.

@thordis age brackets would be more useful, I don’t know what these precisely mean

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Xenniels unite!

@linuxandyarn @thordis GO PHILS

@thordis so my takeaway is that everyone here was born Gen X, but identifies as a millennial

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I don't know how this generation thing works...

@thordis I was born in 1986, so I'm firmly a millennial.

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I had to look up a reference.

1963 here, so, technically Boomer.
I remember the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve broadcast; too young for Woodstock; so I've always felt I aligned more with Gen-X.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/10/08/generation-names-years-explained/74701974007/

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Seriously, no worries! (Oh god, I've become one of those assholes on Mastodon who does drive-by scolding! )

Really, I just wanted to see how many of my "between Boomer and Gen-X" cohort would identify with that description.

@futurebird

Not even sure about in which decade what generation was born, what makes me a late stage boomer ..

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@thordis Hope you reach very different bubbles!

@thordis I'm in that weird Gen Jones group, not really Boomers, closer to Gen X, so that's what I chose.

@thordis 2004 is my birth year

@karhutar @thordis It's weird I get just lumped into this big GenX thing too. GenX includes like 15 years of births. I'm low-mid 70's and I didn't exactly hang out a bunch with the late 60's kids. Not that I didn't really want to, but they wouldn't. So we don't actually share a lot in common. I like Def Leopard and Foreigner OK but I'm actually more into Slayer. They witnessed and remember more of Carter and Reagan than I did and do. Actually experienced the 80's while I'm more 90's.

@thordis xennials (formerly known as Gen Y) are missing (again).... It's such a molehill to die on and yet here I am ><
It wouldn't surprise me if genY was proportionally the most represented on fedi, it's just that we're a micro generation....

@thordis Define "here". The Fediverse in general? Your server?

@thordis oh, was this only supposed to be for forkiverse?

@xerge @thordis @GinevraCat I thought Gen Z was a much bigger group on here.

I think we are just the loudest.

@thordis Sorry, I have no idea what these generations are. They have gone in the same box as Wolf Moons and Personality Types!

I as born in the late sixties, whatever that corresponds to.

@nartagnan @thordis no, you're right. Gen Y was distinct from millenials until approximately the early 2000s. Now also known as xennial.