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 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 :)