How many Lemmy users are non-technical background?
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.
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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.
I’m associate director at an academic think tank. But I’ve always been interested in technology and have recently decided that i want to pivot to cybersecurity. I’ve got a long road ahead of me so here i am!
Not in a technical here - I’ve worked on jets and cars, have done retail management and now program management in the public sector. Though my dad was an electronic engineer in silicon valley in the '70s and '80s so our family adopted technology early and I learned to code very young, but tech stuff has remained a hobby rather than profession.
I’m a US Licensed Customs Broker (I help people/companies navigate Customs laws and classification to import stuff). I have been building and tinkering with PCs since I was a teenager though I have no schooling.
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.
I know enough code to say that I thoroughly dislike PHP and Javascript
Then you don’t know enough code.
And making a new account for each instance?
That’s not necessary, you can join any community on any instance, for example one on my instance, !wwdits - you might notice it’s on the lemmings.world instance and even though you’re on lemmy.world, you should be able to click the link and see the posts / subscribe / write comments / posts.
I still have this imposter syndrome-like feeling that I’m not supposed to be here
If you like it here, it’s exactly where you should be!
I have an Associates in Electronics. I graduated just as the recesion reared it’s ugly head in the early '90’s. With nothing else to do, I cleaned carpet for 20 years. I have dabbled in computers and programming in A86 but never got too deep into them.
Let’s just say I know enough to mess up everything I touch if I’d let myself…
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