I’m not.
I’m a dork. Huge difference. Nerds at least know things.
I’m not smart enough to be a nerd.
Yea I’m just weird
Nerd does not imply smart
we’re on a niche open source reddit alternative built by communists, written in rust, with multiple sizable linux communities
– lemmy at its core
Good point. We’re a bunch of badasses.
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No, I am a geek.
We’re early adopters. By definition: we’re nerds.
Not me I’m cool 😎
I don’t read enough to consider myself a nerd; I’m kind of ignorant. But… I do like nerd topics.
I already did
Is this a Futurama reference?
Yes!
Excellent! I like it.
no, all people here are 30-40 years old communist programmers from california
I am stuck in the yall zone
Whoda thunk the Y’all zone is more PC than the res
Neither a programmer nor from California. I’m a rare southern red
slightly more seriously: lots of lemmy users came from reddit, but mostly from older demographic (because of old reddit phaseout) and more FOSS-oriented, privacy-aware, tech-literate part (because of API shitshow/alternative apps blockage). there’s some barrier to entry (choice of instance) that would filter off the least technical users. there are some prominent programming oriented fedi servers (programming.dev, infosec.exchange). lemmy in general seems to be more lefty than reddit, less americacentric, and i guess that over half are linux users. i suspect that because of combination of technical skill and older age (compared to reddit) lots of lemmitors have well paying technical jobs (again compared to reddit) which allows/requires them to live in nicer parts of their countries (not specifically cali)
Yeah I came here because of the reddit exodus but stayed for the linux. I just need something to scroll through when I am bored and my rss feed isn’t interesting me. As a young person its weird everybody here is old. I am 17 and would’ve thought more of the youth would be interested in alternative social media platforms. Aren’t young people supposed to be the ones who do things contradictory to the status quo?
Not old, not communist and I am from Canada. I am only sort of a programmer. Only do it as a hobby and my job is only tangentially related to it.
I’m not 30-40 years old!
I’m not a programmer; at best I script.
hey now.
But I’m not from Cali!
Hold up…I mean, yeah. Okay.
I’m only one of those things.
Unless you’re the ontological projection of communism, you’re at least two of those things.
…People? I would say that’s too tautological, as the statement begins with “all people here are…”, and necessarily all people here are people, otherwise they’re not covered by the statement.
they see me coming they go ‘nerd alert! 🚨’
j/k i got no friends i’m a nerd
Not only. There are also some communists and furries.
I’m not a nerd. Nerds are smart.
Who’s asking?
a nerd. I’m just wondering because I’d like it know if any normal people are leaving Reddit to use Lemmy. doesn’t look like it.
There were “normal” people on reddit?
Yes. That’s why quality keeps declining there.
Ah, that makes so much sense.
yeah, there’s a decent amount of people that use Reddit’s popular subs that aren’t terminally online.
pics or it didn’t happen
My dad looks at Reddit for advice on fixing our washing machine and similar stuff. And I’ve got friends that use it as a slightly more text-based pinterest
Goodness, you’re being very serious.
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