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How many Lemmy users are non-technical background? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by techconsulnerd@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I think most all of us here on Lemmy are people with technical background. Most of my professional contacts remained using Reddit, Twitter and even excited when Threads launched.

If you are non-tech background, please comment and share what you do for life.

If you have tech background, upvote this to help promote this post so that we can find more non-tech users on Lemmy.

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[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Not technical, but always interested in technical advances.

[–] And009@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm far from a technical background. I make storyboards and concepts for ads and animations. Mostly related to graphics and illustration. Sort of a digital art director.

At the same time I do all my work on a tablet + computer and am a huge tech enthusiast.

[–] wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'm a data analyst that's started to do more data science stuff (learning SQL/python) but not sure I would quite class myself as technical yet.

[–] HowlsSophie@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Human troubleshooting (I'm a therapist). My dad is an engineer who always built his own PCs and gave me a pretty solid foundation for the software side of things, as well as basic car knowledge. Haven't kept up on that in a while but I'm Tier 1 tech support for my parents (my brother is Tier 2) 😂

[–] holupwaitaminute@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Non-tech user here. Well I'm tech-minded I think, and tech-savvy. I know enough code to say that I thoroughly dislike PHP and Javascript. But that's about it.

I think "fediverse" and "instances" are terms many non-tech-oriented might find confusing. and off-putting, maybe because they're not immediately intuitive. I'm aware of the concept of instancing but wasn't sure how or where to create an account at first. I made an account on world because I figured I'd probably see more content there? I don't know.

And making a new account for each instance? I'm not entirely sure if that's how it works yet but that's my understanding. It's intimidating, it's daunting. Plus I'm not as tech savvy as a lot of the people here. It's not that it's uninviting, really--quite the opposite, in fact--but I still have this imposter syndrome-like feeling that I'm not supposed to be here.

Idk. That's my take.

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[–] Urbanfox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Research CRO Analyst.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I agree. I'm a programmer, and I too would also expect the majority of people using decentralized platforms have a technical background.

[–] jezus_christus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Psychiatric nurse here.

[–] teydam@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

social science research

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I work electrical maintenance in a hospital trust. We cover all sorts though.

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