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Req. skill tree input: saying bye to big tech (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't have to explain to this audience why one would want to avoid "big tech", that is your Google, Amazon, Facebook, and so on.

I'm working with a group to create a skill tree for dropping big tech, but could use some more ideas. A skill tree is a chart with actions and skills, ordered from easy to advanced, where you can check which skills you already have and be inspired with other skills. An example: https://github.com/sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree/blob/main/Makerspace%20Skill%20Trees/Makerspace%20Skill%20Tree.png More Maker skill trees: https://github.com/sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree

We want to make it easy for people to switch, and motivate people towards a more open and ethical (tech) world. We already have a list of general actions for the tree, ranging from general concepts like "learn what Open Source means" to specific actions like "search with DuckDuckGo".

I want this to be a good list that actually helps, that is fun and interesting, easy to use, and inspiring, which is why I'm asking you for help. Can you think of things that should definitely (or definitely not) be on this list? I would appreciate all the help I can get.

(x-post from Ask Lemmy since this might be a good audience for the topic)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I would add, learn to format comments so they don't print as blocks of barely readable text and don't use line seperators like dashes if your text has dashes in it because it makes it harder to read when it prints out as a block of text.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It should be perfectly valid MarkDown, and it displays just fine on the webpage.

[–] WhyJiffie 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

maybe their client does not use the github flavored markdown. originally to render a line break you have to end the line with double space. because of that, their client might not understand that the - signs are supposed to be list items

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Alright, I've added the spaces.