First of all, I’m new here so please don’t kill me, I hope this is the right place to ask but I get a lot of computer related stuff on my feed even in the “Subscribed” Tab, Is it just because there’s an abundance of technologically inclined people on lemmy or am I doing something wrong?

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    1 year ago

    The fediverse in general tends to attract more tech inclined people, this is due to a few reasons IMO

    1. Tech people tend to be more privacy conscious, and so will often tend to prefer something like lemmy to something like Reddit/FB/Twitter/etc

    2. Tech people love Open Source Software - the level will vary a lot, but I’ve never met a software engineer who doesn’t have good things to say about FOSS

    3. The fediverse is slightly more complicated than traditional social media (not as much as many make it out to be, but inarguably its at least a bit more complicated). So tech-phobes are likely to be scared away, where as people with good technical literacy are more likely to both understand how it works, and see the benefits