I’m a huge nerd, so the reason I joined Lemmy is because I was looking for a social media platform that conforms with my views on FOSS, moderation, and internet privacy. I would assume many other people are in the same boat, but is that accurate? Who’s just here because they looked up “Reddit alternatives?”
Not exactly. I’m kind of a “learn what I need to to get by” person. I’m not really a Linux person… but my old laptop took 15 minutes to boot up, and the hardware obsoleted out of windows updates, so now I have Linux.
I ran out of space in Google Photos. I would’ve happily bought more space but they told me I’d have free backup space forever if I compressed my photos. When they changed that policy I realized I was being jerked around. So then I got a raspberry pi, and learned how to (barely) set up a server to run Immich.
I liked browsing reddit, but, again, I don’t like being jerked around, so here I am.
Yes. It’s a tech/ nerd bubble here.
Yes, I am and before you ask: no, I will not help you fix your grandma’s PC.
yes i am partially computer
Negative, I am a meat Popsicle.
Smoke you!!
Gimme da cash!
I like how this platform works, I’m actually active here unlike the garbage fire that was and is reddit
Yes, I am in networking and cybersecurity so it was a matter of time before I found out there was a better alternative to reddit
I’m just here for the Reddit alternative. Being FOSS is a bonus.
I’d say I’m more of a computer person than the average person, but less so than the average Lemmy user.
Same here. Reminds me that Reddit was mostly techy posts for the first while too.
I’m a water engineer with a PhD, so not a tech nerd but definitely a nerd :) I came here mostly because I find the Reddit app annoying and the app I was using came here.
reddit is a cesspit, on reddit it used to be that misinformation or incompetency cope would be promptly identified, now its the top 5 comments on any thread…and the next 5 are circle jerks.
in other words: welcome reddit refugees. please please feel free to leave the reddit mindset at the door on your way in :)
I started using reddit just for the memes and would use some 3rd party frontend to get rid of the ads and nake the interface way cleaner. When the API pricing was announced, I serched for a better source of memes and somehow found lemmy. No ads, no bullshit, and there are some cool communities here that I actually want to participate in.
I came to Lemmy just looking for a Reddit alternative. I think this is a superior forum system with user scoring and nested comments. But I do love that it is open and federated and I’m glad to be rid of Reddit completely.
I am a huge tech nerd and love doing these things as side projects (but I prefer making hardware). I like making stuff so the things I’ve been making/setting up are:
- Setting up a R.Pi as a retro gaming console
- R.Pi Kodi media player
- Putting together a hotswap keyboard from a kit
- Migrating to privacy alternatives and degoogling my life
- Migrating to Linux
- Making a fight game controller from scratch
- Making a custom keyboard with soldering and custom layout (and then again for having the same keyboard at work)
- Building a new gaming PC
- Getting a synology NAS and going down the Docker rabbit hole
- Making another fight game controller…or 3
Now I’m planning making a DIY microphone for MS Teams meetings
No, and I cannot fix your PC
I’m techie enough to be interested in federated social media networks. I’m techie enough to start using Linux. Ain’t that enough techie?
*crawls out of a gutter and sneers*
where’s your collection of broken calculator watches that you swear you’ll fix some day?
*scuttles back into sewer*Never had a calculator watch, let alone a collection of broken ones.
*sneers further, revealing blackened teeth*
I’m a bit of a FOSS nerd and care about privacy, but I’m much more an art and design person than I am a technical person.
I use Linux, and I can write some very basic code after learning how in Highschool, but mostly I just like making pretty stuff. Especially anything to-do with UI/UX
Like someone else said, I’m a technical person compared to the average population, but not compared to Lemmy, or the FLOSS community. I left reddit when the api changes happened, and have found I really love the Fediverse and very strongly believe in what it represents
Does just using Arch Linux and ricing DE for fun count as computer savy?, I don’t even know how to code in any languages
Oh, definitely. I always forget how non-tech savvy people generally are. You install a package and they think you’re an Anonymous-level hacker
