This is where everyone from the old internet retreated to.

All we need now are instances that allow freedom of speech.

I disagree. The amount of stagnant backwards ignorance about what AI and llms are and how they function would suggest to me there is only a cursory level knowledge of technology on this platform.

Like you said just enough to create a Lemmy account without assistance but not enough to understand the nuance of emerging tech.

"don't even know how to boot from USB"

Are you serious with this post?

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

Yeah, there's a strong contingent of computer people here. I'm one. If I had been a twitter user, I'd be on Mastadon because the same thing happened there.

But, hopefully you can prune your topics to match your taste. It took me a little bit to filter out the stuff I didn't want and subscribe to the stuff I only found by accident and now my feed very much fits what I want to see. Mine involves tech. But it doesn't have to.

The average person is becoming MORE technologically illiterate, not less. The era of growing up with a home computer that required fiddling and dial up, etc is over. People grow up with phones and iPads and kids come to school not knowing how to use a mouse.

Something that amazes me that I often see is tech literate people wastly over estimating the tech literacy of an average person. Any amount of tech support would tell you that most people barley know the basics and doesn't care for anything else.

Not me. I am so out of the loop here. But I loved the social aspect of reddit and was on it long enough to know how great it was when it was young. Hoping to find that here.

I can’t do any of the stuff you mentioned. I’m here because I hate traditional social media that are not social at all. And I hate ads. And have an interest in community driven stuff and DIY.

And I don’t feel like I am alone here.

You are completely correct and their comments prove it. The bubble is strong here. But it’s a pretty nice bubble

*with strong beliefs on random topics

My own experience, as someone who is not necessarily tech illiterate, but also not an expert either:

I decided to check out some basic Linux stuff, and found a post directing newcomers to a website that was supposed to be a top-notch beginner's guide. This guide started with a history of Linux, written in the style of an early 2000s GameFAQs guide. It then jumped immediately into selecting a distro, and started describing each option with terms like "lightweight"and "robust" without explaining what those terms meant in that context - or even defining what a distro was in the first place.

As someone who has used Windows for around 3 decades, I could make some inferences to fill in the gaps. But I imagine someone with less experience with PCs would get completely lost.

Now on the flip side, I've also shared in another thread the story of how I lost interest in programming partway through my introductory university course, and mostly received positive feedback. The folks in that thread seemed happy to hear the perspective of an outsider.

The average person nowadays could not create and reliably access a Facebook account if they didn't have auto complete/password save.

The worst is twenty-year-olds that have never used a desktop. They just stare at the mouse, keyboard, and monitor like they have no clue what to do.

"Whats the best tool for..."

"Linux!!!"

"Haven't yet said what I'm trying to build"

"Pls just upvote me and tell me I'm good"

My mom is a tech literate echo chamber lmao