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How many Lemmy users are non-technical background? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by techconsulnerd@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I think most all of us here on Lemmy are people with technical background. Most of my professional contacts remained using Reddit, Twitter and even excited when Threads launched.

If you are non-tech background, please comment and share what you do for life.

If you have tech background, upvote this to help promote this post so that we can find more non-tech users on Lemmy.

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[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Not technical at all, I work in Learning & Development at a company. I am always reading the comments and try to learn, but sometimes I have really no clue what you guys are talking about haha!

Yesterday someone was expleaning about adblocker and all the comments were like: "Yeah, who can live without it..." Well, me I guess? And I saw one that was highly recommended so I downloaded it, because why not try it out right? But apparently it's not for your phone. Or I didn't have the right app to support it on my phone.

I was thinking about asking it in the comments of the thread, but like you said: I think a lot of people here have a tech background and although everyone is very nice, I think the explanation might go over my head.

I don't want to give people the feeling I get when I'm trying to explain to my mom over the phone how she can e-mail a file on her computer. It can be very frustrating ;)

[–] james_tiberius@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the Brave browser app because of its native adblocking.

[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah thanks! I just switched to Firefox and Duckduckgo as search engine because all the comments on privacy here on Lemmy. I will check Brave out as well!

[–] james_tiberius@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

I'm really liking it. Actually started using it on both MacOS and Windows 11 (Gaming machine).

Setup sync for the phone, tablet, Macbook and PC, seems to be a solid option.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't know if you know, but you can install addons on Firefox for Android and some of the addons are adblockers.

[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I did not know. Really kind of you to take the time to react on my comments and geving all these suggesties, cheers!

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