Post #2865319

2025-12-31 02:19 UTC

Amongst stated reasons, "signing up" is more difficult here. Its not as straightforward a process and content isn't as spoon fed to you as other platforms. The tech literacy needed to get here isn't high, but as I learned the average tech literacy is abysmal. About 10ish years ago when I was 14, I helped some people print something. They tried printing something from a computer plugged into the printer, an error popped up saying "printer not connected". I thought, thr printer must be, yknow disconnected. Some 6 people had gatherd trying to troubleshoot this but were stumped. I pointed out the error message that kept coming up, didn't click. I followed the cables from the pc to the printer, it was disconnected, I plugged it in and reported back. They where stumped on how I possibly knew what was wrong or how to fix it. I am not good with technology, but im good enough to know im not good with technology. I have found most people, even those younger or same age tend to not be tech literate. Finding the application and filling it out for any random federated instance may seem like nothing but it requires an ammount of literacy many Americans dont have.

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@Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml 2025-12-31 04:17

a less relevant example: many people in general lack the literacy. my entire school thinks I'm able to hack the pentagon because I accessed the boot menu and installed mint on a school computer for my sanity, because last time I used windows on a school computer, I was going through some tough stuff, so on top of it being clunky I have bad memories linked with it. I did not delete windows or touch system files, but I really, really want to. They all treat me like I could hack government systems, even though I've never hacked anything in my life. The average user should be able to access that. A more relevant example: fucking everyone at school, staff and otherwise can't do anything with tech. basic shortcuts? nope (except copy/paste)! indenting in word? nope! using anything other than google as a search engine is seen as suspicious, and no-one can really tech there. most of my school is average in every way, and this is no difference. my english teacher believes that wikipedia still hasn't added any security to who's able to edit articles, spoiler: they have (on most articles) such as peer-review and most of them requiring peer-review and account requirements of 500+ approved edits. the list goes on. "why isn't the printer printing my 3 page essay done in 30 mins?" It's out of cyan. really. go change your cyan, mrs. b. "but the essay is b&w (black and white)" the printer won't work till the cyan is replaced, go tell mrs. b (principal) that the printer is out of cyan. printer says "fuck you, no cyan"

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