I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.
Anonymity and the general public do not mix. Barrier to entry is all we have left.
I just don’t understand how it’s more “techy” than Reddit. I just want our user count to keep going up.
I think we should focus less on hyping federation/decentralization and more on how there are no ads and the content is really coming from actual users (and maybe a leftist bias).
I got a few friends on here by explaining that choosing a server is no different from choosing an email provider. Everyone understands email, that you can communicate with most other email users no matter what their provider is.
in a simplified phrase, fediverse is the linux of social media
Not my fault. Reddit pushed me here!
can’t code but can oddly setup a pretty fucking dope server
or at least navigate a directory through the command line
Why, obviously. I mean who hasn’t read through the ls(1) man page at least once?
2y ago (during the reddit app lockdown) there was a lot of groundswell for joining other communities. Quite a few people made how-to videos showing the process. Although I bet they’re a little outdated now…
I don’t know how to code, but I know my way around computers.
I am not tech literate but here I am.
imposter
Well that sometimes keeps the conversation clean though. Most computer people seem to be a little more intelligent than the average person.
Maybe they might be slightly above the norm in the past, regarding intelligence, but that bell curve flattened out in the early 2000’s. Shit, you rarely need to manage memory anymore.
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Dont worry, they make up for it with awful social skills.
“they”
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Whereas I just assumed it was suggesting that the parent comment also was in the awful social skills group.
makes sense, since Linux users (me) are drawn to foss projects like moths to a light
Literally me
Same
I just wish I could go one single day on Lemmy without the Linux bros yelling to the heavens and going on and on about Linux. If there’s one thing that makes me avoid it, it’s the fanboys here
mastodon is the same way; I feel like I’m in a linux fórum sometimes
Linux is second nature to us geeks, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably knows just Ubuntu or Fedora.
And Debian GNU/Linux, of course.
Wait is this already in reference to the xkcd about experts overestimating the average person’s knowledge about their subject or should I go look for it?
It absolutely sounds like a reference to the xkcd.
Webcomics are second nature to us geeks, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably knows just ADHDinos and Loving Reaper.
And xkcd, of course.
Of course.
Hey, the average person doesn’t even know what Linux is, nor what thermal paste is.
and the problem is?
