Sorry to be the one to break it to you but that is because you are old. My kids listen to distinct music, play distinct games and know a whole group of celebrities I never heard of and will look back at the 20s as their teenage years that were distinct from the time that they look back on it from.

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt” - Often wrongly attributed to Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln but the earliest record is Maurice Switzer

Yeah, my parents were from a small village without reliable running water and toilets and I’m an computer microchip engineer that lives in a house I own with clean filtered water and a bidet.

No, the meme is about countries have all been used as tools of US foreign policy then ditched by them and left for dead.

It doesn’t and the answer is not really. You can post to lemmy communities by tagging them like a user and see the first level of comments but you can’t reply to them or make your own comments. Piefed might have some kind of extra federation integration built in but lemmy does not. A friend of mine wrote a script that will enumerate all the links on a pixelfed instance and then search them on lemmy to manually pull the content but its clunky.

Is there any integration between pixelfed and lemmy? Can I view pixelfed users at all?