Not me I’m cool 😎
I’m a dork. Huge difference. Nerds at least know things.
I’m not.
no, all people here are 30-40 years old communist programmers from california
Not old, not communist and I am from Canada. I am only sort of a programmer. Only do it as a hobby and my job is only tangentially related to it.
Hold up…I mean, yeah. Okay.
Not from Cali, not a programmer (though honestly I could be).
slightly more seriously: lots of lemmy users came from reddit, but mostly from older demographic (because of old reddit phaseout) and more FOSS-oriented, privacy-aware, tech-literate part (because of API shitshow/alternative apps blockage). there’s some barrier to entry (choice of instance) that would filter off the least technical users. there are some prominent programming oriented fedi servers (programming.dev, infosec.exchange). lemmy in general seems to be more lefty than reddit, less americacentric, and i guess that over half are linux users. i suspect that because of combination of technical skill and older age (compared to reddit) lots of lemmitors have well paying technical jobs (again compared to reddit) which allows/requires them to live in nicer parts of their countries (not specifically cali)
Yeah I came here because of the reddit exodus but stayed for the linux. I just need something to scroll through when I am bored and my rss feed isn’t interesting me. As a young person its weird everybody here is old. I am 17 and would’ve thought more of the youth would be interested in alternative social media platforms. Aren’t young people supposed to be the ones who do things contradictory to the status quo?
Neither a programmer nor from California. I’m a rare southern red
I am stuck in the yall zone
Whoda thunk the Y’all zone is more PC than the res
But I’m not from Cali!
I’m only one of those things.
Unless you’re the ontological projection of communism, you’re at least two of those things.
…People? I would say that’s too tautological, as the statement begins with “all people here are…”, and necessarily all people here are people, otherwise they’re not covered by the statement.
I’m not 30-40 years old!
I’m not a programmer; at best I script.
hey now.
Define
I’m not a nerd! I’ve had sex!! with a girl!!! once…
Did it cost much?
Ouch 😷
Who else does research on obscure social media platforms because they are fed up with mainstream surveillance capitalism social media.
Edit: If to be a nerd is to have a strong interest in something particular then everyone should be a nerd because having interests is awesome.
The search for a discord replacement will be a challenge.
I’m not smart enough to be a nerd.
Nerd does not imply smart
Yea I’m just weird
We’re only nerds if we come out of the Silicon Valley region of California. Otherwise, we are just sparkling geeks.
🥰 Thank you
I’m on the border of nerd and geek
I’m not. College dropout waitress married to an artschool dropout chef.
I don’t believe you, you use Lemmy. You are at least somewhat nerd.
Ah, but I’m on the anarchist instance.
So a political nerd lol
With politics, I think the term you want is “wonk”.
Not necessarily, a wonk (e.g. a policy wonk) is not analytically intelligent but may be emotionally intelligent.
A nerd and a wonk may have the same area of interest, but different approaches.
I’m on a piracy instance and I dont pirate.
Well, anymore. Should really update my music library instead of streaming it.
So your reasoning that you’re not a nerd is that you’re an anarchist? I got some bad news for you…
Oh no, I’m hella rad.
lol anarchists can be nerds
Let me explain you how the Red-Workers-Movement of 1922 in the Oblast-Utbackya had this structural issue in their organization by the theory of famous late 19th century analyst.
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I’m the only one, sorry.
Everyone is a nerd about something. That’s how interests work in general: you only ever get called a nerd for being interested in something that others aren’t interested in, but they’re also interested in stuff you’re not interested in, so…
I think you’re mixing up “nerd” and “geek” here.
Eh, I see them as fairly interchangeable. There’s some subtlety in the difference between them, but.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tvy_Pbe5NA
Man, this is 11 years old already?
I already did
Is this a Futurama reference?
Yes!
Excellent! I like it.
I’m fairly non-nerdy, though I like reading fantasy and scifi.
But other than that, nope.
