I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn’t see anything relating to it and I’m kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see. ive been paying attention to interactions but nothing is as good as just asking everyone.
Lemmy has an abnormally tech literate and FOSS “aware” (there’s got to be a better term but I’m blanking) user base. The community is small enough that recognizing people isn’t unheard of so we tend to be more polite overall - with a smaller community there’s less of a sense of anonymity and more social accountability. Oh, we tend to be rather left leaning but, to be honest, “The universe has a well known liberal bias”.
Other than those factors we’re a mix of folks.
Lawl. Speak for yourself: I’m a luddite - I just asked someone ‘what is a foss’
Is this is what happened to my parents when the internet came along and computers started being a thing? I swore to God that would never happen to me
Abnormally tech literate and FOSS aware - we’ve got lots of people who aren’t and I didn’t mean to imply we’re all in that camp.
This isn’t a tech forum so self-identified luddites are welcome!
You figured out the Fediverse, you’re not that much of a luddite.
You shouldn’t feel to bad gen x and millennials created the web and how most tech is today. The generation after these are damn near tech illiterate. If it’s not an app or buttons to click they’re lost.
This warms my geriatric millennial heart
Technically, every generation up until now contributed to modern tech.
But anyway, even if we consider just those who did directly, I am pretty sure you should still also include boomers and even the silent generation.
Check out the computer chronicles: https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles?sort=date
Seems modern enough already.
Some boomers definitely helped in it, but do remember even the youngest boomers are 60+ now. While they did help, it wasn’t anywhere near what gen x and then millennials did. Not discounting them at all. Also while yes the younger era of the net with darpa is from boomers and the silent gen, I’m more talking about what the web and tech is today. They %100 laid the foundation, we just built the rest.
wowee is it really that bad for them? I wouldve thought since they grew up with tech that it would just be intuitive to them.
It’s on par or worse than boomers. Do remember these kids grew up with mainly cell phones, very few had to actually learn how to type and use a computer. Go to r/teachers and you will see countless stores of how far behind they are compared to each previous year. I feel like millennials and Gen X strived for the easiest and best user experience, which means less having to figure things out like we did.
I’m curious, how did you find out about and start using Lemmy? Most folks on Reddit when the API fiasco was happening acted like you needed to be a tech god to even sign up, so I’m curious if you felt intimidated at all?
I was following what was happening on Reddit and someone mentioned it. It was a little tricky to sign up and understand how it all worked once I did, but I got there, obviously (to the chagrin of the shitpost communities)