i now have more "followers" on mastodon than i ever did on twitter, but followers kind of cease to be so crucial, because the local and fed timelines are chill places to be and you don't need followers to participate in them
@live i think the reason for that is the userbase is so small and technically niche, there are at the moment more like-minded people on here than any other social platform
@live i bite my tongue. stackoverflow is the social platform with the highest percentage of like-minded peopl
@myles stack overflow is soooo easy to take for granted. it has at once enabled my entire life and career and also somehow i never spent a single minute thinking about the site itself
@live my job involves hanging out on stack overflow searching for stuff all day long, i know nothing in reality heh
@sten0_SE @live @kodo I was just talking with a friend about this today who's brand new to programming. He was saying that he finds Stack Overflow useless because he just can't grok what the answers are talking about. And I took it completely for granted how much baseline knowledge was required for me to even be able to say "this is a garbage thread, move on" or "this long answer is worth sitting down for".
@kodo @live Not true! half of the knowledge is knowing what to search and how (via operators/dorking etc).
Most IT roles are just parsing documentation effectively and understanding the core fundamentals. aka the "why do we use this vs this" as opposed to the "how to implement"