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.
I literally changed majors half way through what was initially a compsci degree because I can't code, lmao.
i can code (i’m pretty decent at it actually) but i quit being a CS major because working in tech would kill me, and i’d much rather be doing literally anything other than desk work
I mean I very much am a queer computer toucher. I even live in Seattle. Other than furry I am 100% middle-of-the-road the Stereotypical Cohost User. That uh... that does not describe most of the people I follow here.
This does appear to be the current iteration of You Have To Make CSS Crimes To Be Popular On Cohost, a way to complain about some perceived set of Cool Kids, which, you know, fine
no not the cool games that make a lot of money
no not the indie games that you all respect
no the other ones
yeah
I might be currently unemployed but my field is nonfiction copyediting and proofreading. well, that's what my last job was at least. fits my skillset far better than anything else tbh
Heavy equipment operator & mechanic.
Also oddly, line cook as well.
I actually prefer a kitchen to a construction site these days.
i have faked my way through coding enough to get very marginally famous for making bots but don't know enough to get them working here and my adhd is too bad to learn. i am sort of a computer toucher but my day job is jeweler. i know enough to make my web store look ok.
I do touch computers but right now I'm touching glass. There's a lot of cool people in this thread I'm going to have to follow
