every day this week i have seen a different post about this site being ubiquitously tech people. and idk about the larger cohost cohort, i don't have access to any larger numbers or data, but i don't understand this concept? I don't work in tech and I don't think more than 1 out of 10 people on my feed do. is this a true thing that I am just in the middle of a non-representative sample for, or is it just a narrative, repeated, that has been taken as gospel? it feels like the sort of thing that could serve as a folk demography... but for all i know it is a reality that I am merely not privy to
It's been grating on me as well, to the point where I almost wrote a chost about it earlier today before I got distracted by book deliveries and sweet & sour chicken. Not to say that any of us are necessarily outside of sample bias, but the overwhelming majority of people I follow on here and see rechosted onto my feed are artists and writers. I write. My Mainline job is basically a glorified car mechanic, and I try to acquire physical copies of books because for some reason it's the only way I can read them quickly. I am not a techie. Most of the people I know are not techies. Even among the techies I know, half of them would not choose to use that as a label for themselves, nor do they necessarily deserve it.
That tech people bit also usually has "queer furry" tailing behind it as well, and again, maybe it's just that artists are who I gravitate towards. I find it irritating in the same way.
Funnily enough it might also be sample bias in the reverse, where a lot of the furry people in the tech scene just assume every furry is in tech because they themselves are in tech, and think it's endemic when it really isn't.
I'm so tech illiterate I actively count against the amount of tech knowledgeable on this site.
At this point it's starting to feel like tech ppl are trying to manifest a truth into existence, by telling us to our face we are not using this website, again and again. Even as we are actively using it lol
The reason why I know how markdown works is that Something Awful Let's Plays and FATAL and Friend reviews are that much more fun when you can engage in markdown fuckery + speeds up composing posts if you can do markdown outside the browser window.
This is my replacement for CSS crimes.
On the other hand, I do have a lot of loathing for the way modern tech goes AND I'm reluctantly more tech savvy than the average bear because I had to handle my own PC upgrades since I was a teen.
I still don't know how tags are meaningfully different from hashtags.
