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[–] bamfic 28 points 5 months ago (9 children)

ITT: shit tons of IT people. does anyone on lemmy not work in IT? yikes

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

The big populating event was Reddit shutting down API service (about a year ago, happy first cake day to me). Most people don't know what that is. A lot of people don't get what federation is, either.

I fully hope and expect that normies will appear as it grows, but for now it's people nerdy enough to know why we should care.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IT folks are exactly the people who will be early adoptors of technology. If lemmy can start growing to something approaching an early majority, then we'll see a big shift in the demographic of the user base. Unfortunately, that's a huge gap in expansion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, I’m just an anti-capitalist non-tech person. I barely know anything about what most people seem to consider basic tech knowledge. Fuck that weird pedo ceo of Reddit, fuck that company, fuck corporate greed in general. I’m just here to avoid being forced to take ankther company’s vampiric bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Fair enough, glad you're here!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I'm currently in the medical field but "IT" is one of my nicknames πŸ’€ every new place I work I try to hide it but I just impulsively fix shit and then end up being expected to fix shit

[–] Miarolitic 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Geologist checking in.

Although, I don't know what LTP means in this context. In my world, it's "Long Term Planning".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm one of the few that don't work in tech but it's arguably the hobby I spend the most time (and money) with so I'm not sure if I really count. I work in emergency management & specialized response services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Fancy way to say you’re on a peak truck!

[–] return2ozma 5 points 5 months ago

I'm in IT also.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Set lighting technician here

[–] pandarisu 1 points 5 months ago

I'm not saying I'm in IT, but I'm tired and read the question and thought, "Why are they asking about printers?"