I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.
Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.
There’s a lot of other stuff here too, granted Star Trek is 60% of my feed - but it reminds me of the old internet so I’m content.
What else do you like?
Star Trek, Linux, and a smattering of other memes… that’s all I need!
I can help with 2 out of 3.
Although Lemmy is making me want to get into Linux too…
I definitely read all your memes. Thank you for your service!
Do it it’s tolerable. Yeah I got convinced by you people. But I’d always wanted to be one
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I haven’t seen one. Everyone here seems like an expert already… I already have a PC set aside to do it, so it’s just a matter of taking the plunge one of these days.
Probably start with something noob friendly, like Ubuntu?
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I had heard Debian was also very noob friendly, so I’ll probably go with that then. I don’t really have much of a tech background other than amateur hobby stuff, so I definitely need to pick one that’s going to have a lot of instructional content out there.
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Ok, making a mental note to choose Debian then, whenever I finally do it.
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Canonical’s pushing of snaps sucks, but in my experience Ubuntu “just works” on every piece of hardware I throw it at in a way that even Debian sometimes doesn’t. (IDK why, and – having gone through my Gentoo-tweak-everything phase 20 years ago – I can’t be bothered to care.)
Point is, Ubuntu is fine. Just let the noobs use it; don’t put them off with quibbling . It’s fine.
Pop_OS or Mint solves the issues with Snap by cutting it out, I’d recommend other people use those because Snaps introduce many minor frustrations that don’t make sense unless you know what you’re doing and that you’re using snaps.
TL;DR for those who don’t know about snaps, Ubuntu has a thing that makes some apps not work quite right all the time, Pop_OS and Mint don’t have that thing or have a different thing that works better most of the time.
I’m mostly into gaming and tech.
I believe Technology is the top active community.
I feel you on gaming though. I try to be active in niche subs for games I’ve played recently, like Armored Core and Baldur’s Gate. The demographic on Lemmy is no doubt perfect for building up gaming communities - I bet a venn diagram of Lemmings and people who you would find at a con is practically a circle. I think we just need to get some more started.
None taken
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Just gonna go out on a limb and say most cheap tech projects are probably running on some open source code.
You are limiting yourself a little bit by not being at least slightly interested in it.
Classic Linux propagandist move
To point out reality?
“I like tech, but I don’t actually give a shit about how any of it works” is a really weak take.
Not really
Most people don’t care how their shit works, they just want it to work. People like OP, who seem to have a semi-casual outlook on it aren’t going to need to know how or why anything works.
Then they don’t “like tech.” They like toys made with tech.
And?
That describes 95%+ of the population. I’m a software developer and feel largely the same way as OP. You don’t need to know the intricacies of something to enjoy using it.
Stop gatekeeping shit because people don’t want to be as invested in it as you.
OP is here bringing up how they implicitly don’t care about how their stuff works. We’re not gatekeeping shit except the obvious answers to the stupid questions that will inevitably arise.
Be ignorant! Go! Run! But if you want to complain about it, well then we have a problem.
There’s a few specific gaming communities. They’re small, but I can say growing daily. I’m actually a mod of !satisfactory@lemmy.world for example. If one doesn’t exist and you feel up to it, make a community too. I’m sure there are people who are interested. The communities are small, but through nurturing we can grow them up to a nice size.
Check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities, I don’t know how many are active but it only takes one person to make it active!
You need to follow more tags, like game-specific tags and specific tech tags. Sometimes I think federation fails to show all content in the tags, so following more people might help too
In case you’ve not seen it, https://fediverse-explorer.stefanbohacek.dev is really useful for getting around this.
What are these tags you speak of?
I think it’s in mastodon and not lemmy.
There are apps that you can use that follow all posts with that one word in it, like liftoff. The lemmy dev was saying they were working on a tagging system, and I thought maybe that came out and I missed it.
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