I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

  • lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    Relevant xkcd: Average familiarity

    You severly overestimate the average persons tech literacy even when you try to correct for it. Booting from USB is already a really advanced topic.

    Though creating a lemmy account is not that complex. Typically all you have to do is fill out a form on the websiten instructions included. The problem there is not the tech literacyn but the willingness of the people to even interact with systems they don’t know, like finding a home instance or understanding the concept of the fediverse. Most people could create a lemmy account, though also most people wouldn’t.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      People are lazier than ever now. Thats one reason I dont like the tech illiterate normies. Its SO EASY so learn how to use the tools you interact with 24/7. But they are lazy.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      4 months ago

      There’s a comment above this who incredulously exclaims “boot from a USB drive‽” and I can tell you as someone who does tech support, that may be legitimately 1% of the US population.

      • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 months ago

        Does it count if I have to google which key to hold down to enter the boot menu or bios every time? There are 12 function keys and esc.

        • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Yeah, I’m pretty sure I could do it, but I would need to look up the steps. Already knowing how to do tech stuff is one thing, but below that are people like me that are comfortable following guides. It seems a lot of people aren’t.

          • Gloomy@mander.xyz
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            4 months ago

            This is where i sit. I don’t know shit on my own, but i know how to look it up. I managed to do the transfer from Windows to Linux Mint and have been able to navigate the bumps in the process via Google and trying to get a halfway decent idea about some very basic concepts. Now i am moving on and am trying to get rid of all Tech Companies that bend their knee to fascism. And that works as well, without being a tech savvy person.

            • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              4 months ago

              I would argue that being willing to learn qualifies you as a tech savvy person, even if not as much as people that are really accomplished at it.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Tbh, getting into lemmy is quite a bit more complex than e.g. into Instagram or other centralized social media platforms.

      Compare this:

      • Choose which social media platform to use and land on Instagram
      • Download the instagram app from the default store of your phone’s OS
      • Create an account
      • Done

      with:

      • Choose which social media platform to use and land on Lemmy
      • Choose which app to use. There’s like 20 of them, some great some not so, some active, some abandoned. There’s no guide or anything, so you’ll have to google and/or try 5 of them to find one you like.
      • Choose which instance to use. There are literally hundreds of them and you don’t even know where to start. You have no information, but this choice is central to the kind of lemmy experience you will get.
      • Google and find join-lemmy.org. Now you got a one-liner for each instance together with user count. So naively you sort by activity and land on lemmy.ml.
      • Create an account
      • Figure out what .ml stands for.
      • Repeat step 3-5 because account transfers between instances don’t work.
      • Repeat step 3-5 because you landed on the likes of lemmy.ee or feddit.de, and the instance closed down
      • Done, until your instance closes down

      Slight hyperbole here, but choosing an app and instance alone is complicated enough to scare away lots of people.

      • Por_que_pine@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Hyperbole? Not really. You described my lemmy experience perfectly. However, not having big data sift through my digital feces to find the peanut, makes it worth the effort.

        • squaresinger@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Tbh, not even that is guaranteed. Lemmy (or the fediverse in general) are really not that privacy-focussed at all.

          While the people running your instance might not be sifting through your data, nothing would stop anyone from doing so. Everything you post on Lemmy is public, and even if all major instances would somehow block scraping (which they don’t), a scraper would only need to create their own instance and ActivityPub would just deliver all of the data in a nice and easy to process way.

          The big advantage of Lemmy is that it is not controlled by one large corporation (and instead by a bunch of faceless, unknown randos on the internet), not that posting stuff publically visible on the internet is somehow more private.