No tech background. I work as a teaching assistant and after-school teacher with grades 1-4 (not exactly, but those are the closest US equivalents). Always loved technology though so I spend as much time as I can teaching my kiddos programming and other nerdy things.
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Non-tech user here. Well I'm tech-minded I think, and tech-savvy. I know enough code to say that I thoroughly dislike PHP and Javascript. But that's about it.
I think "fediverse" and "instances" are terms many non-tech-oriented might find confusing. and off-putting, maybe because they're not immediately intuitive. I'm aware of the concept of instancing but wasn't sure how or where to create an account at first. I made an account on world because I figured I'd probably see more content there? I don't know.
And making a new account for each instance? I'm not entirely sure if that's how it works yet but that's my understanding. It's intimidating, it's daunting. Plus I'm not as tech savvy as a lot of the people here. It's not that it's uninviting, really--quite the opposite, in fact--but I still have this imposter syndrome-like feeling that I'm not supposed to be here.
Idk. That's my take.
I know enough code to say that I thoroughly dislike PHP and Javascript
Then you don't know enough code.
And making a new account for each instance?
That's not necessary, you can join any community on any instance, for example one on my instance, !wwdits@lemmings.world - you might notice it's on the lemmings.world instance and even though you're on lemmy.world, you should be able to click the link and see the posts / subscribe / write comments / posts.
I still have this imposter syndrome-like feeling that Iโm not supposed to be here
If you like it here, it's exactly where you should be!
I certainly don't know enough code! With AI now though I don't think any amount of learning would land me a job sadly.
And thanks! I do like it here.
AI's capabilities are way overblown, if you get serious with development, you will surpass AI in no time. AI is currently great at pretending it knows what it's doing, but it doesn't really know, human expertise is still uncontested.
So it's great at some of the boring tasks, meaning you can actually use it to skip those boring parts and leave them to the AI, while focusing on the important bits. If that's the only thing stopping you from learning to code, go for it!
I'm a data analyst that's started to do more data science stuff (learning SQL/python) but not sure I would quite class myself as technical yet.
Yeah, I agree. I'm a programmer, and I too would also expect the majority of people using decentralized platforms have a technical background.