I’m a sound engineer, have been for 25 years or so. It’s a field that was traditionally the home of VB swilling, winnie-red smoking, greasy-haired stereotypes. For real. In the warehouse of a production company I worked at as a younger lad, this was written on the wall: “Roadie’s mantra - if it bleeds, fuck it. If it doesn’t bleed, chuck it in the truck.”
But these days it’s a high-tech field comprising a stimulating and complex mix of networking, clever design, 3D modelling, problem-solving, art, music of course, and very little in the way of fistfights and drug overdoses.
I mainly worked with original bands throughout my career, and I’m not a fan of gross commercialisation. The federated social media space feels a little bit like how the internet used to be when I was little. When USEnet was a big thing for social interaction and not so much for warez.
How about you?
I’m an IT nerd. Surprise.
There are dozens of us!
Medicine.
Once upon a long time ago (pre- and during schooling) had a web resale site. Think webrings and tags in the code to tweak the DMOZ results for Google Era. Never made the jump from writing my own code w Arachnophobia to the thousands of new ways do so.
Rexxitor who came to reddit from 4chan.
Disgusted by the blatant money grab and poor conduct by Reddit. Fuck /u/spez.
Rexxitor, ha! Thats great! I am now, and shall forever be a Rexxtor also!
Web developer and server admin for 17 years now. Seen the rise and fall of many companies and fads. Still wrapping my head around the Fediverse but like you said, seems familiar to how the Internet used to be. Reminds me of Usenet and IRC.
Wow, that’s super cool. What’s the local band scene like in Perth? I imagine it’s really diverse. Any home grow legends you recommend? The only ones I can think of are San Cisco, but I’m really out of the loop at the moment.
I’m in mining… and IT.
Also a bit of a tin hat wearer against social media and the big it companies… I really love my self hosted and open source.
So reddit is the next giant that lemmy gives me the opportunity to get away from it.
this is pretty much me, but not in mining, im in govt job. working mostly with cloud (ms azure)
Usenet is still great!!
I’m in the software industry which is smaller than it probably should be here
I murder people in new and interesting ways for the entertainment of others.
I am on DSP now, but i was a sys admin for 10 years. I enjoyed it, but my autism was too unruly so i got on DSP.
I work in the technology side of events and TV. Reddit was a great resource for community help with obscure pieces of kit. Reddit is slowly becoming Facebook and is more about memes than a forum.
Lemmy is more like what Reddit started as, and I hope settles in that more nerdy niche that Reddit no longer fulfils.
