How many Lemmy users are non-technical background?

Work on/build racecars. Some of it's very technical, but probably not the type you're asking about. Also a woman. I'm checking off all the abnormal demographics here. Right?

62 years old woman, semi-retired, only work part time now. I was in the travel business. Found Lemmy thru a Reddit comment a few months ago. Felt the need for a change. Currently with Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon, trying to find my place.

Non tech background here. I work in a steel mill and see social media as entertainment. A time killer.

I'm a substitute teacher, and definitely not technical but my husband is, and he introduced me to Reddit many years ago. It was fun but I only ever used it on the RIF app. When I saw what was happening last month, I read a thread that suggested Lemmy as an alternative so here I am.

I'm an assembly line worker and have been for about five years now at different factories. Refrigerators, car parts, ag equipment, etc.

There's a job opening coming up at a plant that offers college benefits though, so hopefully I get to join y'all in tech in a few years. Hopefully working with so many robots and machines will give me an advantage through sheer osmosis lol

I'm a stay at home mom, no professional tech background. I came here to get away from Reddit. I am considered the "tech support" for my family and friends though. :-)

I'm a biologist, but have always been fairly techy in my own time outside of my work. Definitely not much of a tech person though, I can't code or anything like that. Can troubleshoot most of my own technical issues though and built a PC.

I'm non tech.

I just work as essentially an administrative assistant in a real estate-esque office making $20 an hour.

Just a married woman in her 20s who is sick of Reddit's shit.

Arborist. No real tech background or skills but always been interested in tech trends and issues, so I keep up with those things more than the average person.

I do not have a tech background. I am a baker in my mid 30's. I became sick of reddits shit, and once RIF was gone I was done.

I really like Lemmy, even though I admit it is a bit confusing at times, but I've gotten the jist of it I think.

Therapist. I'm not very techy at all.

Non-tech Background. I work for a big union and migrated here from reddit, which was my only social media site I would use.

Am just a poor peasent fastfood worker lol, I joined Lemmy because I was looking for reddits alts and I saw some people saying "don't try to understand it too much just sign up" so I did.

Before becoming a stay-at-home dad, I was a state investigator (and a police officer prior to that). I investigated medical doctors and nurses on behalf of their respective state licensing boards, investigating things like application fraud, substandard care, unprofessional conduct, and drug diversion.

My tech skills are limited to building a PC and basic troubleshooting.

My wife is a therapist and she’s considering making the jump from Reddit to Lemmy.

Fuck spez.

I'm disabled and unemployed with only a GED education. I'm not a programmer or anything. I taught myself basic HTML in 1997 when I was 10, but that's about as far as I go. I know juuuuust enough about tech to understand and appreciate that Lemmy is decentralized and open-source.

But I think you'll find that a lot of new users are only here because Spez is ruining Reddit. All they're looking for is a Reddit that doesn't suck.

Very technical. Technically, I build chairs!!

I'm a baker. Found lemmy through a friend

Non-tech background. I'm a book editor and when the Snoopocalypse happened, most of the niche communities I was a part of were shut down in protest, so I decided to give Lemmy a try. Loving it so far, as it seems way less toxic.

I work in a bakery. I used to be a nurse. But my husband is in tech otherwise I wouldn’t know about Lemmy more than likely.

Just a regular 'ol retail worker. I'm so glad Lemmy was here to save my lunch breaks from reddit.

Legal field for me, but I'll be honest. I was planning on quitting Reddit cold turkey and doing something else with my free time but my software project manager husband kept talking about Lemmy, so here I am.

I'm a massage therapist just blundering my way through this space...

Stay at home wife. I used to work as a bookkeeper, now dealing with some health issues. However I am 55 and have used computers since as long as i can remember, I learned how to use punch cards in what you yanks would call middle school. So I don't work in tech, but it doesn't bother me to learn new things. Lemmy reminds me of the good old days of BBS and just trying things out to see what stuck.

non tech, i currently am not working but i have a bachelor’s degree in paleontology and am currently studying for my master’s in museum studies. my partner is a programmer but i’m the one that introduced her to lemmy

Union ironworker, mainly do heavy rigging and crane work. Not tech related at all, but I've helped build data c enters all over the US

I'm a geologist.

I'm a truck driver though I do have a Master's in maths. Make of that what you will.

Family law attorney who hates bullies. Fuck spez!

I'm a music teacher!

I'm a mom that works part time in accounts. Definitely not IT technical.

Here because Apollo and RIF have gone and I saw reddit posts directing me here. Might leave because 50% of the posts here are "reddit is shit" and I'm just not that interested in that circle jerk.

Classical composer here, and choral conductor. I've always been a computer person, but I don't have a background on tech stuff.

I'm non-tech. I swing a hammer for a living.

The extent of my knowledge is building my gaming PC and a bit of HTML 20 years ago. I'm still a bit confused as to what is going on, but I'm managing.

I think more people will migrate here once more apps create accessibility for the layperson.

I'm a social worker at an elementary school. My tech abilities are limited to addressing cyberbullying amongst 9 year olds.

Not technical at all, I work in Learning & Development at a company. I am always reading the comments and try to learn, but sometimes I have really no clue what you guys are talking about haha!

Yesterday someone was expleaning about adblocker and all the comments were like: "Yeah, who can live without it..." Well, me I guess? And I saw one that was highly recommended so I downloaded it, because why not try it out right? But apparently it's not for your phone. Or I didn't have the right app to support it on my phone.

I was thinking about asking it in the comments of the thread, but like you said: I think a lot of people here have a tech background and although everyone is very nice, I think the explanation might go over my head.

I don't want to give people the feeling I get when I'm trying to explain to my mom over the phone how she can e-mail a file on her computer. It can be very frustrating ;)

Pre-Med student here. Just ya average non-average queer neurodivergent zoomer. I'm not from a tech background, but I do use Linux, which basically makes me a programmer 😎

I'm a librarian

I majored in English, now I make artisanal pizzas.

Not a techie. Paramedic / firefighter - I'm not the most tech literate, but I manage to get by lol

Non- tech: I’m a psychiatrist, generally working with offenders in hospital and prisons. The clinical work is always interesting, and im usually thankful for openness at which people spill their life stories to me.

Tech: I’ve kinda thought myself software development since I started working as a doctor. There’s just too much inefficiencies in the way we work clinically day-to-day due to the sheer amount of defensive practice inherent in the health system. Started off with personal tools to “assist” the electronic systems in place. But since then I’ve launched and maintained a number of digital clinical tools in a few local hospital which I’m pretty proud of.

I'm a security officer. Reddit pissed me off with all the rules and I was looking for somewhere that the internet felt more like the good old days. Haven't found it yet but lemmy is like a breath of fresh air

Non-tech. Just a healthcare worker who got sick of Reddit's shit and is open-minded to new tech.

Would be great to get places similar to meddit, r/pharmacy, and r/nursing here.

Not me, that's for sure.

I was just here to promote a movie.

All of my friends are either programmers or are in I.T. I'm a lowly handyman who just happens to be tech literate enough to get by.

Photojournalist. I just pretend to know what the buttons do... it works. They all think I'm some kind of a genius with the picture machine, but I'm actually an artist.

I'm a carpenter apprentice and a refugee from RIF.

Electrician here, came to upvote, realized I should be posting. My formal computer training ended with Java and qBasic in 2003.

I’m an artist, maker and workshop technician. Apollo refugee.

I'm a music composer and currently learning deep learning to help me compose music and arrange it. I don't know if I should consider myself as a non-tech person or not.

Factory worker. Not tech illiterate but also not exactly an expert in any respect.

Have been abnormal though, Internet-wise. I only have a twitter to post crap from Switch to lazily import screenshots to computer. When Facebook asked for my real name I said fuck you and never looked back.

Reddit was the only social media that I actually used as social media.

I don't have any job, since I'm disabled and just live off government disability benefits. For hobbies though, I still don't get much into anything tech related. I do cooking and sometimes attempt writing. Unless tinkering with Linux a tiny bit sometimes counts as tech.

I assume, considering this is the fediverse, that by "technical" you mean IT-related, Silicon Valley type fields.
While I grew up on computers and know my way around them, and have a bachelor's degree in biochem, I'm an Operating Engineer.
That's the proper title of "union guy that runs heavy construction equipment." Mostly, I help build or resurface roads.
I'm one of the guys y'all get irritated with when your local highway is restricted to one lane by a work enclosure, but are thankful for when your new road rides nice.
It pays really well though, so there's that. And it is actually very technical, but in a materials/engineering sense.

Political scientist checking in, but I'm doing statistics in R and installed Linux for the first time before I hit puberty, so I guess I'm not entirely non-technical.

Am here both out of an interest for open source and because I consider centralized social media platforms to be dangerous for society, so it seems worthwhile to help fight them. I'm also pushing 30, so I'm nostalgic to the days of yore of independent forums.

non-tech, older millennial, and going back for nursing. I've been on the internet since the 90s and I love computers (and tech in general) but I'm not very tech-inclined

I'm pastor in France. Nothing techy…

I am a mere washed-out adult. just work retail and wish I was going somewhere in my life

I am a doctor, not quite a techy person, I’m just tired of the shitshow that is conventional social media

Not a techie, background in journalism.

I do invasive insect surveys

Nurse ova here

I do ceramics full time with my SO. We run the pottery subreddit but computery stuff is just a hobby! Heard about lemmy after losing the reddit is fun app. Its much better!

By background, no. Current lawyer, Classics major.

But... I am presently defending a Bittorrent copyright infringement case and negotiated a software license agreement a few weeks ago.

Non-technical background here. I do strategic policy work.

I work in the restaurant industry.

I have a 14 year old MacBook pro.

Not very tech savvy

Social worker in sexual education and health from Germany

Hobby tech-savy but mainly enthusiastic for tech stuff Aim to do IT to social service translation

Greetings :)

Airline pilot. Surprisingly low technical knowledge required considering how computerized airplanes are.

i’m a psychology student going to graduate school for counseling :) wouldn’t consider myself to have a tech background - tech savvy enough to build my own pc and troubleshoot common tech problems for friends, but not tech savvy enough to understand most open source technology

Used to be a handyman now I'm a machinist

Cinema worker, diorama maker/sometime animator. I jumped ship from Reddit about 2 days before RiF became unusable. Have been progressively finding more (if not identical) interests to pursue in fediverse, and unexpectedly contributing more content than I did on Reddit.

Non tech, I currently work in municipal water but previous to that was municipal sewer.

I also saw in this thread I'm not the only woman working on a racecar! Hell yeah

Stay at home parent, former chef. The closest thing to tech background I have is electrician training in night school.

I'm tech literate but I wouldn't consider myself technical compared to a lot of people here. I struggle with adapting to new concepts. Takes a while to get my head around them.

For instance (no pun intended) when twitter shat the bed and I heard about Mastodon being an alternative. I looked to into it but it seemed a bit overwhelming to figure out.

Fast forward to Reddit shitting the bed and the bits of knowledge learned from Mastodon helped me in converting to Lemmy.

I'm mid 40's and it's really frustrating that I can't figure things out like I could in my teens and 20's.

Metal fabrication

Bro I don't even understand what a server is. My spouse explains it to me like every second week and I get it for like 30 seconds but I just don't understand to remember. I'm also not sure what a router is. Apparently Wifi is like radio, just waves? Wtf

I've got a MSc degree in Biomedicine and before going on parental leave (still am) I've worked in pharmaceutical research and with DNA/RNA analytical services in the lab. My biggest tech experience was trying to code with R and I hated it and it was a mess.

My only background is in Hell/customer service. Like most of us, Reddit was home for so long. I wouldn't call myself super tech-savvy, but I fucked around with the Fediverse, figured it out and am happy to not create content for that shitbird Spez. Thanks for listening

Been in the foodservice industry for a lot of years. Quit that and switched to nonprofit social services.

I am of the age that I remember helping my mom set the time on her VCR so it would stop blinking 12:00. Now I need my kids to help me with stuff they consider pretty basic.

Environmental protection here. Making sure people don't fuck any shit up worse than it is. To be fair I do IT work on the side and hope to transfer into the field one day. You'd be surprised how many folks out there think I'm the enemy but they're just mad they got caught, or completely misinformed.

"What do you mean i can't dump oil down a drain?? Like, what can you dump down them then?"

Literally a question someone asked me this week.

I am a translator. I do like tech and learning about it but that's about it.

I came to Lemmy because reddit killed 3rd party apps and because I really support the idea of the fediverse.

I work in HR. Im also working on getting the fuck out of HR. Not into anything techy, though. I came here from reddit just before rif died.

I'm a professional photographer, hardly "tech" although that world interests me.

I'm a medical lab manager. I don't work in tech professionally, but it has always interested me. By default I handle all my labs technical issues. Lol I loved using reddit via a 3rd party app and was disgusted how things were handled so I have come here to test the waters. So far I'm finding this exciting and I'm having fun!

I'm a chef lol

I fix (flatpanel) TVs as a side hustle, but I wouldnt call that technical since 90% of the time, its just a blown capacitor on the backlight power rail. 6% of the time, its a blown backlight itself, and the remaining 4% of the time its something else that usually requires in my personal experience, for me and my limited skills (Which is mostly just common sense and internet searching, no actual practical skill besides knowing how to solder), to either pass or part shotgun it, depending.

well, i've gotten a few broken screens, but those arent fixable, so i dont really count those.

mostly I'm just a gamer, and any technical skill I learn is because i'm forced to to unfuck something with my linux install, heh.

I don't have a tech background, currently doing museum security, that's all. Super enjoyable work. This community is nice, I only lurked in reddit.

I’m a security system salesman, and while some of it is “technical”, it’s probably not in the sense you meant.

I needed a social media that has more legitimate conversation. Reddit provided that but fuck Spez.

Lenny has been my replacement!

I think a lot of people here who are not into tech in a non-professional capacity are into "nerd" stuff as a hobby. Including me. I don't know if I count, but I'm looking forward into working in tech, kinda terified because I run the chance of getting my hobby jaded.

I'm a professional dev, but I'm also mostly shite with technology. So whether that counts is up to you I guess.

Wastewater Operator. We have an older gentleman at my job who refuses to use computers at all. We still do everything with paper and pen. Nothing is digitized.

Psychologist, work in schools. I feel like I'm slightly more tech-inclined than my peers but idk

Construction industry project manager here.

Sure, we use lots of tech and actually build a lot of the data-centers and fabs that are the backbone of the internet and modern computing, but the on-the-ground nuts and bolts of what we do is very much about highly-skilled tradesmen performing manual work that can't be done remotely or by robots.

So it's not really "tech" per se at all, even though we do a ton of work for companies like Intel, Google, Meta and the like.

I'm a real estate office drone who loves guitar and video games. Took a programming 101 class and absolutely hated it. Fuck Spez!

I'm not tech, but sales as a profession. Now, to be fair, I have an interest in tech and I'm always looking for what's new.

Tax consultant

I am a loader on a dust cart. I found out about this type of website through my brother, who was mates with the IT guy where he worked. He told him about Digg and reddit, which I then joined. I actually prefer the tech side of things rather than everything being memes.

Im in HVAC/plumbing. But I mainly install the stuff.

I built my own Computer, use Linux and am passionate about floss and privacy issues.

I'm a stay at home mom and a former teacher. My husband does IT, which means I do even less tech stuff than when I was single because I always just call him. I really like Lemmy. I was a casual Redditor and never used any third party apps, but after coming here to check it out, I'm now planning to stay.

Apartment building super. But also a computer geek.

My tech background is in the fact that our family computer in the early 2000s wasn't powerful enough to do much and my parents wouldn't pay for games, so I spent a ton of time digging around in Control Panel and system files and messing up the BIOS settings.

My studies have all been in the humanities and I've never worked in an actual tech role; I got into scripting and self-hosting because I'm lazy, I like FOSS, and I like systems that work in the way I tell them to rather than how someone else thinks they should work.

I love seeing the diversity in here! And so many people actually participating.

Soon to be brewer. But I play with Linux (after w 10 got too heavy with updates).

I have no tech background. I have a degree in communications that I'm wasting as a veterinary receptionist and doctors assistant. The discount is huge for people who have a lot of animals, and wait times for appointments are very long due to the shortage in the industry. My animals are seen right away for the slightest concerns, and they get top quality care for pennies on the dollar. They've got me by the short and curlies.

I used to be an accountant. I’m in the process of changing careers. It still won’t be tech related.

I'm technical. But I would love to hear from people who aren't. It's impressive for someone who isn't technical to be on Lemmy I think.

I’m a stand-up comic and game show host. I migrated from reddit, where I founded /r/feminineboys and then passed it to capable moderators and abandoned the site as Apollo died.

There is non-tech and non-technical.

I'm not in a tech field, but I'm in an engineering field and there is a lot of technical knowledge in that.

A humanist here, working in the cultural heritage (which is also increasingly digital) field.

I reckon I have more computer skills than an average user but in no way I am a "techie". It's just that I know how to search for tech solutions and am not afraid of breaking the computer. Due to using Unity I also have some experience with C# and currently I am trying to learn python (mostly just for fun but you'll never know if it ends up being helpful at some point).

So definetily not a tech person, but interested in both the humanist and technological side if life.

I'm an arborist. The most tech I get is figuring out mechanical advantage setups with various pulleys and snatch blocks.

I lift things up and put them down.

(UPS driver and avid gamer. No tech background but would have loved to have gone down that path in my yoots. c'est la vie )

Not too much techy, paleontologist here

Lecturer at a university! I am a political economist working on post-growth/post-development and trying to change the economics discipline. So I guess I feel quite good on Lemmy now, better than reddit 😁

I’m not super into tech and I work in a bookstore. I heard about the fediverse thru various sources on the red site.

I don't know if I count but I'm a communications student. Information technology is somewhat related but this field isn't pragmatic when it comes to that. I'm probably one of the few students here who's interested in studying (alternative) media platforms over media content.

It's rare to have dicussions on things like copyleft, privacy, open-source software, and decentralized communications platforms, all of which I genuinely believe are worthwhile topics in this field.

Depends on what you mean by "background". I'm an ex-lawyer (practiced for a couple years, but hated it, doing other law-related things), but I'm an old school geek that was using the internet in the late 80s, building my own boxes in the 90s, etc. I'm also a woman.

I like the fediverse because it reminds me of the free-wheeling, anarchical days of the interbutts in the early 90s with IRC (EFnet only, mind), usenet, etc., before Endless September.

I'm a teenager with a maintenance job, interested in game design tho.

I have my own carpet installation business, no formal tech knowledge but I'm a hobbyist and taught myself html and some visual basic in the late 90s early 00s when I was a young teenager and have always built my own computers to play games on, somice always had an interest without ever really getting involved as a.career 35 yo currently.

I am not technical however I can follow instructions very well. When people were migrating i read a bunch of the stuff and finally got here.

I’m a math education major and a stay at home mom

My MIL can program cobol but can’t use her iphone lol

i'm not sure what counts as 'tech background', but i probably count. though my job is as a construction laborer.

No tech background. I try to get by with online tutorials mostly.

I repair heavy equipment in the mining industry, as a welder.

Financial Services here. Licensed Broker for a major firm.

Bartender who's studying game design🤚

Im a biologist working in research. Ive always been a hobbyist with computers and videos games. But I never went into tech because I didn't want to make my hobby a full time job.

Love Lemmy and can't wait for it to be number one

I work in a bank and have very little technical knowledge about mechanics, software, coding and web design. However, I know a good deal about computer hardware, as one of my hobbies is fixing and building computers.

I'm techie by gift, not by trade. I'm an MA in philosophy. Teaching is my main activity.

Well, I'm here. I'm loving the fediverse. And I'm kinda from outside tech, although being IT literate. So perhaps I should be counted as having a technical background.

In a professional sense? Zero technical background. I have a general interest in tech, built a few computers and worked in an electronics section of a store for a few years (almost miss it.) Otherwise I'm the guy who has parents that say I should be in IT just because I know how to set up their TV.

US Navy Sailor: Professional PowerPoint Ranger, not computer troubleshooter. That’s for my IT homies sitting in their Div office onboard, and why I make sure they stay supplied with whatever snacks they want.

I’m in marketing and work on company websites from an SEO and content development perspective. Nothing too technical but I’m aware of some of it even if I don’t know how make a server/instance I’m aware of it’s benefits.

Also, I’ve done social media advertising and peeking behind that curtain opened my eyes on how advertisers use our data so it made me interested in open source and community run projects over company run software.

Marketing / illustrator. I'm tangentially techy 👌

No technical background: historian, former university teacher and researcher, now researching at a museum. Did teach digital humanities though and am uhm... tech friendly?

Marketing, illustration, and graphic design here. I also dabble in music making but have yet to do anything interesting.

Not techy at all, am very confused mostly. I am figuring all this stuff out though, slowly. It's so new and exciting.

I’m a real estate advisor so definitely non-technical though I do consider myself more familiar with the workings of computers and most other tech than the average person. I’m familiar with the Linux command line at a basic level and have run Linux on my PCs before. I’m also somewhat concerned about online privacy and frustrated over how capitalism is largely destroying the best things about the internet, something which seems to have accelerated as of late..

I work as a medical office assistant and left Reddit once whatever 3rd party app I was using was no longer supported. I am however supposed to be learning to take over a medical IT business at some point. Allegedly.

I work as a barista in a coffee shop. I'm decently techy if you compare me to the average population. I can't code or anything actually technical, but I'm a decent tech support for friends and family (and by that I mean I am able to find and follow instructions written by people smarter than me using search engines).

Part of me would love to go to school and learn how to code, or get a better understanding of computing and land an IT or sysadmin type of role, since I love tinkering around computers (I semi-regularly install and setup a new operating system on my computer just out of boredom) but it seems like too much effort.

I'm technically Stoopid with computer stuff. I teach elementary school.

In STEM, but not tech specifically. At least not professionally.

I'm non-tech, but I was using the internet back in 1994 when you had to know more about how computers worked to get them to do what you wanted.

Physical therapist

Musician now studying compsci because I dun wanna starve :(

Went to school to be a history teacher but ended up working in accounting for a healthcare company. Just like my job I never really planned to be here, but i was on reddit for 11 years before jumping over last month. Im excited by the growth I’ve already seen, and to see how that will continue.

Medical professional here. I am pretty tech savvy tho..

How about a technical background not related to computers? I am a meatspace engineer, not a thoughtspace engineer.

I work in hospitality. There's a lot of waiting around at my job, so I mostly used Reddit to kill time. I hopped over to Lemmy since Wefwef's app is better and Blahaj.zone had a Lemmy instance

I work in a warehouse and take care of exotic animals on the side. I feel I have the basics down for tech but not enough to do IT or something. My family and friends contact me for tech help so I guess I know more than the average person. Even though I literally just Google everything, most of the time.

Don’t have any formal tech education, but can write a simple Python program or build a simple circuit with a 555 timer.