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Here's the thing: we can't ALL have been the smartest kids in our classes. It's just so unlikely.
We were the generic background idiots in someone else's success story all along.
Maybe I'm like Inspector Gadget. The titular character, but the real protagonist is my niece and her dog.
That's entirely plausible. It's fairly normal even. Thats still well over 10 million people and it's common for people to be in the 95th percentile then go to college and be completely average.
With the barriers to entry that Lemmy has it's not that unlikely. It's like an incel going onto 8chan and saying, we can't all be the most edgy people we know.
According to this website there are only around 40-70k daily active users (monthly vs semiannual). If you look at total users we're sitting on about 1.3 million with 11 million posts per day and 23 million comments per day.
So 0.015% of the world population on an obscure site which is not mainstream accessible.
EDIT: Just because you were one of the smartest people in your class doesn't mean you are "smart." I would argue that it says more about the other kids in your class than it does you, most people are fucking stupid.
I don’t know about all that, I’m pretty dumb and I’m here. I run my own home lab, frigate, HAOS, do a lot of cooking and am a tech lead for a pretty diverse range of SMEs, so I feel like I’m competent but I don’t think I’m very smart. I can do things and figure stuff out but as an example just yesterday I was watching a video about this bitluni guy making a GPU and the things he just knows while explaining what he’s doing, like he’s smart, I could never do something like that.
https://youtu.be/HRfbQJ6FdF0
See!? I warned you I wasn't the smartest.
And I gotta say I really appreciate it!
Really appreciate it 🥰