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?

  • lnm225@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • 🦘min0nim🦘@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Alfreido 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • orangesEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m a developer (primarily web apps and the likes) and was a long term Reddit user. In my mid forties so was there from the very early days.

    Been coding for 15-20 years and love what I do.

    Reason for coming here and upping sticks was i’m legit sick of being a product and having my data scraped by every man and beast. Decided to ditch Reddit a week or so before the blackout and also finally made the swap to Linux as a daily driver same time.

    Good to see the back of Microsoft and Reddit. I didn’t really appreciate how much I was being advertised to on Reddit outside of the paid promotional posts. By comparison I have been on Lemmy now for 3-4 weeks and have yet to see a single brand mentioned even subtly ! Reddit was every other post…

    Anyhow, a change is great and likewise similar to you, I too find it very reminiscent of early web :)

  • skribe@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I murder people in new and interesting ways for the entertainment of others.

  • aeternum@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.