Who are you, roughly speaking? What industry are you in? What is it about your scene that made lemmy pique your curiosity?
Who are you, roughly speaking? What industry are you in? What is it about your scene that made lemmy pique your curiosity?
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?
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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.