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An edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity”:
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
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Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.
partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked “who still uses google these days?”)
made with this neat tool
Feels like you are responding to a discussion about a much deeper topic. When one doesn’t know what a word means, it doesn’t mean they need to go down a rabbit hole or make a whole research paper about it. A quick definition or wiki search is much quicker than writing the question on a forum.
Would it really be a contribution from me and an opportunity for you to elaborate from your point of view if I asked right now what’s reddit? I don’t see it.
Yes, cause then I’d tell you that it’s a forum site that used to be good before it sold out to profit motive and became a corporation, started pushing ads and manipulating algorithms for engagement farming, became hostile toward anonymity, and now permabans people for saying mean things about nazis.
I’d tell you you’re not missing much and that you’re already on the fediverse, so you basically skipped samsara, which is fine because the end of the journey is always the moment you realize that the journey was never necessary in the first place.
If you simply googled “what’s reddit” you might get drawn down the rabbit hole and become a redditor. I wouldn’t let that happen to you.