you are 100% correct, however, the longer im here, the more tech literate i become, the easier it becomes for me to explain it to others, and thus, the fediverse grows. word of mouth to those willing to take the plunge.

you cant force people to learn something, but being able to sell it convincingly helps, especially if you know what you are talking about, and arent abbrasive or judgemental.

linux community / privacy communities rock here.

also general conversation feels more honest and constructive. instead of the whole “WeLl AcTuAlLy!” type of shit you get on reddit. it happens, but nowhere nearly as much.

also, way less censorship. comparing feeds from lemmy to reddit, is like apples to oranges.

this feels like a much more human space to me.

Definitely very echoey in here.

Hello?

^Hello?

It’s been like this in some online communities since mIRC was popular. mIRC was not user friendly and people had to know how to access it, change servers, use commands. This seemed simple to me back then but most of my friends could not be bothered.

With Meta’s slop, TikTok, and Reddit being so easy people rarely step outside those bubbles anymore.

This is true but I ultimately don’t care.

Is there any social media site that isn’t an echo chamber? They’re designed that way on purpose in most cases.

There are enough forums catering to idiots. I appreciate the better moderation, tech savviness, and lack of tolerance for right wing BS on Lemmy.

The way I look at it is, the more echo chambers you are in and out of, the more complete of a picture you can get as a whole.

Yes, Lemmy is a certain kind of echo chamber. But you can’t really be part of an online community these days that doesn’t tend toward becoming one.

You just have to diversify to keep the thread. And Lemmy is a very important part of that diversification for me.

Don’t worry, my fair tech-literate maiden. I, a tech-dyslexic, am here to bring down the collective IQ and make the chamber echo less. You can thank me later, for adding some much needed intellectual diversity to the mix.

We use arch btw.

The reason I am still with .world is because I cant be arsed to figure out how to kove instance or remember hownI set it up.

I can copy command line prompts from forums and chatgpt to my newly linted linux pc…that I dont really use because I cant figure shit out.

i don’t claim to have much computer knowledge, but people look at me like I have two heads when I suggest using a YouTube client without ads or download Blokada. Hell, the amount of people who don’t use Firefox (or a fork of it) and uBlock Origing are insane

The average person probably couldn’t figure it out because they don’t care to. If you tell someone "Make a Lemmy account"ntheyll be confused. If you tell someone “Make an account at https://lemmy.world/” they’ll figure it out. It’s like if you give someone a puzzle but it’s boring and they don’t care to solve it, they’re probably not gonna take the time to solve it.

Ditto. And they keep pumping up Linux and refusing to accept that not everyone is tech savvy.

Better than the generally illiterate echo chambers in other parts of my daily life.

Probably true but the amount of tech posts fade into insignificance compared to the 60 - 70% Trump/Musk did/says this stupid thing posts.
I know, and it’s been going on for years.
Not everyone is american or wants to read about them 20 times per day.

Where’s the meme of the wojack at the party standing in the corner saying “They don’t even know how to boot from USB”

On the topic of echo chambers - At what point did we decide that a bunch of people over a wide geographical area with similar interests and a common code of standards/preferences of civility… Is a bad thing?

It’s kind of how social clubs exist irl.