@pluralistic thus I coined the term "#TechLiteracy" (or lack thereof as "#TechIlliteracy").

• As this is a more fitting term to differenciate between "us" #TechLiterates (who know how to setup some lightweight #Linux distro and make it work (not just for us bot others) and those who believe the #Enshittification, #bloat and crap is "a fact of life" (aka. "#TechIlliterates")…
  • Just like #literacy enables people to learn, interact and communicate, the same applies to using #technology and #media (see "#MediaLiteracy")…

Thus I see it as both moral and social duty to spread "Tech-Literacy" among society because decades of #illiteracy in #tech are now paying dividends and #Cyberfascists actively work on sabotaging and destroying #HumanRights and #CivilRights under #FalsePretenses lile "#YouthProtection" (see "#AgeVerification")…

@GrahamDowns Possibly, the reasons of such behaviour are described in this blogpost: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

Big tech invested a lot to make people illiterate and unable to ask help from another people. If at 90s someone met a requirement "open the console and run this command to make XYZ", in the README, then (s)he perform this action because (s)he knows how the things work. Or ask some friends — definitely there will be some nerd, sleeping with "K&R C" under the pillow 😃

Then nowadays, possibly the mostly expected scenario — well-learned behaviour — a lot of ramblings in the so-called "social networks" about how programmers "gatekeeping" users from using the programs 🤷‍♂️

#literacy #illiteracy

@vkc also #teach others more #TechLiteracy.

• Even if it's just fundamentals like a #CryptoParty!

We need to eradicate #TechIlliteracy (& #MediaIlliteracy!) the same way #Illiteracy in henersl gets fought against!