For the people that are complaining about this "2022" year you claim exists:

What generation are you?

I feel like I may have forgotten something...

@catsalad where is x?

@antdude i found x!

@catsalad

@catsalad@infosec.exchange why do we call them the greatest generation if they're all dead, huh? cant be that great

- posted by Seraphine

@Transbian_Arsonists @catsalad The "Greatest Generation" were my grandfather's age, their primary trait is that they were there for World War 2, firsthand.

@Transbian_Arsonists They never had to use AI, seems pretty great to me!

@catsalad

@catsalad hey theres no gen x!

@emily_rugburn @catsalad let me guess, there's also no 2022.. it's never enough is it! 🤪

@bazkie @catsalad i remember 2022 and it sucked.

@catsalad I'm still in beta. Does that make me the Beta Generation?

@catsalad Gen X always forgotten...

@hyc @catsalad Yeah, a big fuck you to us I guess. 🙄

@catsalad Am I glad I do not know to what you are referring?

@catsalad everyone forgets gen x.

@catsalad Gen X, remember us!

@thestrangelet @catsalad They ALWAYS forget about us, the drank-from-hose generation.

@thestrangelet @catsalad Naturally, I feel compelled to point out that I got to see David Bowie and Trent Reznor sing together on the same stage.

@frobozz @thestrangelet Holy shit!!! I am so jealous

@frobozz @thestrangelet Hey that was a good water when you've been jumping on a trampoline all day!

@catsalad @thestrangelet You're not wrong, the polymers from the hose enhanced the flavor. We didn't have a trampoline, so we just wandered around breaking stuff.

@catsalad @frobozz @thestrangelet

Those forever chemicals, leached out with the heat, made the water taste extra sweet.

@frobozz @thestrangelet @catsalad The rest of us pretty much all drank the Kool-Aid, though.

@catsalad I'm a Xellennial (End of gen X, but a year short of truly Millennial.) I voted the closest available option.

@madengineering @catsalad Same *FISTBUMP*

@catsalad evidently, Millennials are so good we killed 2022

@OctaviaConAmore @catsalad my one regret as a millennial is not having killed ENOUGH things

@peachymist @catsalad that's fair... we could always pick up where we left off?

@peachymist @OctaviaConAmore @catsalad same!!! next step is to kill the luxury restaurant industry

@OctaviaConAmore First, the avocado toast industry and now entire year? You monsters! 😭

@catsalad this is the true power of Y2K

@OctaviaConAmore @catsalad
And Gen X too apparently.

Q: How do you know @catsalad is trolling?
A: They toot.

😂

@agturcz

@catsalad HERESY!

@catsalad As usual, my generation was forgotten. Though I'm technically GenX by birth year, I seem to have most of the same problems as Millennials, so I tend to self-identify as a Xennial.

@frobozz
generations delineation by birthyear are all marketing bullshit anyway
@catsalad

@frobozz
same.

@catsalad

@catsalad I see what you did there.

@catsalad

@catsalad Quite evil, I approve.

@catsalad

between Millenial and Gen Z.

@catsalad I was born after the end of the millenials but before the start of the gen zs

@catsalad gen X, so I picked "greatest generation" 😎

@catsalad I love being able to choose multiple options.

Where’s the Forgotten Generation (Gen X) - how appropriate. 😒

@catsalad
Ha ha. Gen X.

@catsalad Oh, well done.

@catsalad I like that you forgot Gen X. Like everyone does haha

@violenteastcoastcity @catsalad

It's not a bug. it's a feature.

@catsalad
God dammit 😂

@catsalad Why did you include Gen Z twice? (the 1st and 4th options)

@catsalad why multiple choice!? Is this a reincarnation cult!?

@catsalad Deep breath. Apparently my entire generation is hanging out with 2022.

@catsalad

catsalad:

i greatly admire the fact that you have enough demographic knowledge of the fediverse to know that there is a lot of gen x who joined in 2022 and that you then purposefully created the best funny and harmless ragebait i've seen in a long time

👏 👏 👏

i bow before the master

@benroyce @catsalad Ahhh…I was wondering where the apartheid twitter exodus was. 😃

@benroyce @catsalad

yup. one to skip 2022, then another to skip gen X.

this total mastery is only one of the reasons why i follow @catsalad . solid cat content is, of course, the most compelling reason.

@paul_ipv6 @catsalad

many people think trolling is universally a menace

no

trolling for mirth, trolling for good: both are very real useful and powerful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masked_Avengers%27_prank_on_Sarah_Palin

@benroyce @catsalad

ask not for whom the witty trolls. they troll for thee.

@paul_ipv6 @catsalad

seriously though:

the day you think your shit smells like roses, is the day you will take your greatest fall

@benroyce @catsalad

pretty sure that "my shit don't stink" is the oxford english dictionary definition of hubris.

@benroyce @catsalad

I am genX
I joined in 2022
I concur - well played.

@icastico @catsalad

hello, me 🤭

@catsalad
Generation Jones ...
the middle child everyone forgets about.

@catsalad
I remember when 1998 didn't exist

@catsalad omg you’re so mean

@3janeTA

@catsalad thanks for this.

@catsalad I know 2022 exists because I saw the mess the floods from that year created.

I joined Mastodon at the end of 2022… practically 2023.

@stuartl I'm a year 2022 centrist. So let's just all argree it "might" exist, though it "not existing" does also have some nuanced uses*

*ethical trolling

@catsalad Yes good. Plz continue to leave us out of things. 😆

@catsalad Inaugural Gen X-er...

Says so right on my profile...

@catsalad is the gratest is X ?

@catsalad cries into glass of garden-hose water

@catsalad cats?

@Haikyoneko Yeah, that must've been it!

@catsalad Looks right to me! (b. 1968)

@catsalad

You are as cruel as a cat person with a laser pointer.

@jrdepriest

@catsalad

Sure, forget about us Generation Jones people just like everybody else does. 😆

@catsalad I'm Generation FU.

@catsalad My generation 🚲🤣

@catsalad

2022, lol >///<

@pharmafemboy @catsalad lol same

@diazona @pharmafemboy @catsalad same

@independentpen @diazona @pharmafemboy @catsalad
Same

@jacquiharper @independentpen @diazona @pharmafemboy @catsalad Same

@pharmafemboy Sorry, that year didn't exist 🤷‍♀️

@pharmafemboy @catsalad It's multiple choice, so just vote 2021 & 2023 and assume the count is being averaged ;)

@catsalad I forgor

@lykrast @catsalad me too. Good thing servers usually send welcome mails

@catsalad 2022 twitter exodus but there was no 2022 option so I put '21

@azonenberg So you admit there was no 2022!

@azonenberg @catsalad +1, I joined Fedi when Musk acquired Twitter. I had been on Twitter since the days when you had to update via SMS.

@catsalad 2022

@catsalad I joined in 2022. I feel ignored. 😉

@tk Oh wow, that was even before Fediverse redstone came out!

@catsalad 2018

@catsalad I joined in the one year you did not include: 2022

@catsalad Wow. You’re evil. 😉

@catsalad My join date shows as 2024, but I was originally part of an instance the year prior.

@catsalad

@catsalad Joining in 2022 AND being Gen X is like a double nut shot here.

@eryops Who said that?! >_>

Must have been the wind...

@catsalad

you're missing 2022, the great twitter exodus. ;)

@catsalad
Left off 2022

@catsalad i see what you did there

@catsalad I'm afraid you will have rather biased results 🤭

@catsalad when did the muskening happen?

@catsalad Well I joined this year. Also who tf put 2027

@sackofbones Some people haven't joined yet, so I did want to exclude them.

@sackofbones @catsalad Chaos. Agent.
(╮°-°)╮┳━━┳ ( ╯°□°)╯ ┻━━┻

@catsalad@infosec.exchange attempt in 2017, but was on .social so felt weird(was also still in a environment where i couldn't explore my gender so didn't fit in at the time, joined again during the pandemic and it stuck)

@catsalad@infosec.exchange 2019

@catsalad compuserve era? Kidding 2022 does exist I have pictures 😺

@ButchH11 Proof it! Show me a picture of a cat. :3

@catsalad proof 😺

@ButchH11 kitties!!!

@catsalad LOL!!!

@catsalad I think it was around 2016-17 or so, I got on a small server run by a person I was familiar with. Found the whole thing confusing. Didn't know how to set things up to suit me, didn't know how anything worked. I gave up on it, most of the feed was in Japanese. Came back on a different, large server the day Elon bought Twitter and this time had no problems at all. 🤷

@catsalad Other

@catsalad it'll be 10 years next year 😳

@catsalad I opened my first account couple days after Trump’s first inauguration in 2017. Not to brag, I could smell the wind of change on Twitter. Made it permanent when Musk pulled that sink stunt

@farah @catsalad I had my clown car out November 2016.

I wanted it to be my choice.

@catsalad picked 2023 because that's when my account was made, and I checked with @tendstofortytwo@tech.lgbt, neither of us know who each other is

@catsalad i joined the 23rd month of 2020

@catsalad@infosec.exchange a long time ago, maybe 2017? installed mastodon, nobody was really on there, left. only started caring again after Musk bought Twitter

@catsalad

What happened with 2022? That's when I joined.

@LateNite Fake news, 2022 didn't exist!

@catsalad

lol, well played.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange i tried to join back in 2020/pre-covid but mastodon dot art never accepted my application
so it ended up being 2023

@catsalad
Im old enough here that i can remember when there were Bronies as far as your eyes could see.
And nyannyann.

@catsalad though i had been interested in fedi 4 a good bit longer

just procrastinated a while

@catsalad I only found out about it in late 2025 through trying to find the source of a meme

@catsalad And Pre-Musk.

@catsalad I swear there was a year between 2021 and 2023, but can't remember it, was it 2021.5 or 2021 2?

@catsalad 2022!!!

@catsalad 2027 ?
Are you one of them bloody "morale" time travelers ?
Can you stop being a wanker for five minutes, and give us some pointers on how to not set the human race on fire ?

@catsalad@infosec.exchange

I had created an account on Mastodon.social (the horror) around 2019 and had to dust it off the moment the unfunny guy bought Twitter

@catsalad 2022...

@catsalad either 2016 or 2017 but i didnt keep that account very long.
Feels like a lifetime ago

@catsalad had a GNU social instance around 8 years ago. Moved from that since the development was dead.

@catsalad Does an account I basically never used and forgot about count?

@dalias Only if you remember. I know I joined once before 2022, but never used it 🤷‍♀️

@catsalad I remember having it, and apparently have 12 followers on it. I just found the password; I should try logging in. 😂

@catsalad And it has a bunch of notifications from people who accidentally @'d it instead of this account. It looks like one accidentally inserted a space before hachyderm when replying to something. 🙃

@catsalad why is 2022 missing

@tragivictoria because

@catsalad About ten minutes before I saw my first shitpost from you, IIRC.

@catsalad

So before covid is the Mastodon version of the dark ages?

I did technically join back then, but at that time the web interface didn't filter out repeated boosts from multiple people I followed. So my feed was extremely repetitive and annoying, which led to me not coming here very often

When Twitter went to shit, I was happy to see that had been changed over here! So I hopped on the 'don and never looked back

@catsalad I just checked my OG…
2017

What even is time???

@catsalad Late 2022, but that wasn't in the poll, so I said 2023.

@catsalad Actually 2022, and solidly millennial.

@catsalad

2022, but it's not on the list 😀

@catsalad whois mamot.fr...

Created: 2017-04-06T08:16:36Z

🤯

@catsalad

3.75 million years ago.

@pattykimura @catsalad

ah. the plio-pleisto-verse, an early defederated social media.

@catsalad

Ehh... Where's 2022?

@catsalad

@NONE huh.. I'm sure I left it around here somewhere

That's the question that haunts us all, isn't it? When did we first arrive here, among these strange and wonderful servers?

@catsalad I love that "The year Elon bought Twitter" is not an option 🙂

@catsalad@infosec.exchange From what I remember, it was just before Twitter shat itself to death (around early 2022 or late 2021), as I was getting into open-source and found that Fedi/Masto was libre. Even though it is still an imperfect solution (as it's ultimately still social media), it was really cozy to see how much less chaotic it was compared to Twitter at the time. ​​

@catsalad You should have gone further, 'When Musk bought Twitter' is probably the real migration.

@catsalad 2022

@catsalad

left off 2022

@Herndonite strange

@catsalad 2022. Same week Musk fired all the Twitter staff.

@catsalad my year not shown. 2022

@carfreesince93 Oh, that's silly. Nobody joined that year. :3

@catsalad @nevar23 2022 (which is missing from the poll)

@garthc @nevar23 Are you sure it's missing?

@catsalad Back in 2016 🥳

@catsalad
You skipped 2022.🤨

@benroyce

@qurlyjoe @catsalad

read the replies 😁

@catsalad

I first created an account in 2018 but, didn't do anything with it. Then in October 2022 I started using Mastodon during the Great Migration.

@catsalad It was between 2021 & 2023

The actual number escapes me

@catsalad I can't even remember exactly when it was. This is my 4th or 5th single-user instance lol

@catsalad 2023 (AD)

@catsalad 2022

@catsalad

@bryan

@catsalad 2017, what did I win?