I was formally studying Software Development before I came here, and yeah, I've been a sort of techie for the better part of 24 years. Been a LiGNUx user for probably a combined 18 years. If it wasn't for FOSS I probably would have lost interest long ago, because when I recently tried out some new hobbies I was shocked as I was reminded how much other basic activities cost to seriously engage in. I also happened to migrate from that other website you mentioned, but that's not important. I really wanted to simply find other forums that weren't based on one centralized website. Lemmy is kind of a compromise with that for me.
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i never heard someone using the term LiGNUx, is it some new way of saying GNU/Linux?
it's an alternative to GNU/Linux proposed by Richard Stallman. I use it because I don't want to write out as much and I still want to differentiate from my use of Android's OS which is also technically Linux but it's not GNU.
What would you call Alpine Linux?
it's an outlier for sure. I don't think I have a specific use-case for it as a distro but I do find it more respectable than Android.
I like linux, had a stint as a webdev, I fly drones, and enjoy playing syrhesizers. Take from that what you will.
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
I like doing tech stuff as a hobby yeah. Don't remember why I signed up for Lemmy but I have been aware of it for years before I signed up. I think I wanted to have a place to talk about FOSS but also in a community that was generally aligned with my political views (hence my decision to sign up for lemmy.ml)
Username checks out, lol. Glad you found a place!
I'm a little of both, I joined for escaping the reddit blackout shutdown, but I stayed for the advantages of the fediverse. I grew up working with a lot of proprietary software, and I've had growing pains as I've grown bitter about proprietary software over time. I've been self hosting, working on migrating my machines to Linux, and trying to find workable alternatives to everything.
Edit: yes I'm quite techy, a DevSecOps/software engineer. I worked with Linux a long time through VMs and containers, but gaming and Adobe kept me from having a daily driver machine for more than a little while. I don't think I'll ever fully escape Windows because I'm a big .NET developer and work with a lot of legacy code, but I'm more than happy to leave that to a QEMU VM.
I'm a tech person and I still use reddit
I just answered on the other lemmy post (about are you on here 100%) but I'm not a tech person. I googled alternatives, plus I understood the benefits of federation so that's how I came to Lemmy.
Yes. I've worked in tech ever since I was able to teach myself enough to hold a job amongst people with CS degrees. I hadn't been on Reddit for a lot of years up until six months before the exodus. I had no account and only consumed. Here feels worth submitting links and discussing things.
People referring to themselves as huge Nerds or Geeks are usually the ones that would like to be, but simply aren't, while those rigidly fighting these labels are the real bad ones as I observed.
Like most people on this site, I'm a happy consumer who rejects FOSS (McIBM is enough for me thank you), hates moderation (spicy pickles on icecream is my breakfast), and routinely walks the neighbourhood naked because I think privacy is for prudes. I'm only here as a spy for Reddit and routinely report all activity to Sir Zuckerberg since I hope to start a romantic endeavour with him one day...
...what kind of answers were you hoping to get?