Welcome! Feel free to introduce yourself here in the c/main channel if you’d like.
From a Wisconsin Exurb of the Twin Cities. I am an astronomer and instrumentation physicist, most of my day job is debugging software and electronics. But sometimes it is looking at galaxies and exoplanets. I am getting back into running after an injury and am currently reading about political economics.
Welcome! We have many software people on the instance. Come join the Matrix channel.
From Chicago. I made the plunge to Mastodon (and here) after the Reddit shenanigans and just seeing the repeated bad-faith policies by Twitter. I have been using redirector and libredirect for the last month or two to actively decide who I give my data to just as a fun experiment into best practices.
I think it’s slowly starting to be clear that this type of setup will be the way forward for the more tech-savvy, privacy-focused users, and hopefully/eventually it hits the mainstream as well, but otherwise, it’s just self-selecting into the type of people I want to be around, which will probably be better for my mental health anyways.
I’m into cycling, trading, sci-fi and FOSS. Currently reading The Expanse and taking a sabbatical year from work
Edit: Just want to encourage people to engage w/ and create content over the next few weeks. Activity and friendly faces are probably the most determining factor in whether someone becomes an active user or just browses for a few minutes
Good morning, midwestern Lemmites! Actually a Hexbear refugee, I got banned when they found out I organize with Trotskyists. Don’t worry though, my IRL organizing work creates enough personal irritation that I don’t need to harass people who disagree with me in order to get it. I’m just here cuz its a leftish space of localish people, who post memes and stories I can comment on. I like Music, art, videogames, tech, books (history, social theory, sci fi)…well I actually have too many hobbies and interests to list. Thanks for letting me in your little instance!
Welcome!
Hi there! I’m in Madison and am pretty active on the subreddit. I’m making my way over here slowly but surely. I am in grad school for urban planning. I enjoy talking and debating politics and philosophy, and am active on the Social Democracy subreddit.
Hi everyone, another Chicagolander here, this time from the western suburbs. I just moved over here from kbin.social, which has been broken quite a lot lately. Prior to that I was on reddit for an embarrassingly long time, bailing on it when the shit hit the fan last summer.
I’m also on Mastodon where I post very infrequently - I prefer the link aggregator with comments style services such as Lemmy over microblog things.
I’m a middle-aged immigrant dude who is into a lot of nerd shit like scifi, books, video games, electric vehicles, as well as photography and motorcycles. I also ride bicycles for fun and exercise when the weather doesn’t suck.
Hi!
Ohioan here… I too am a recent reddit refugee… anyone else having digg deja vu?..
Likes: Nerdy things, Video Games, Animals, Ohio sports teams, Music, Traveling
Been on Mastodon for a few months (suck it twitter) and with Reddit’s recent money grab figured I’d check out other parts of the fediverse.
Was not around for the Digg exodus, but I’m hoping this will be the historic Reddit exodus. I had felt this would be coming, especially after hearing about the Reddit IPO. Unfortunately these things always turn products to shit. And here we are. Hoping we can all reclaim the internet. Feel I’m living the cyberpunk dystopian future when I jump online nowadays. Reddit was my last internet refuge. But I had to leave. I was a dedicated Apollo user and have to take a principled stand after what they did to Selig. Reddit account deleted and excited for what the future holds for Lemmy.
Hi y’all! I’m from Indiana. Nice to meet you all!
Nice to have you here.
Sup nerds. I’m Miah, I’m from Western Michigan. I’m a UNIX/Linux nerd, Right to Repair advocate, and transgender woman. I’ve been working on our cars by myself and would love to make some car nerd friends. My wife and I have 24 chickens, and a budding garden.
trans, married, AND you have 24 chickens? you’re winning at life
Hi, I’m Corwin! TL;DR: wordy nerd for MN; lotsa kids, cats, GNU vol.
I’m yet-another-new-user bc Reddit; glad for the mass troop move toward FOSS and federated things, social especially. Over the last few years, I’ve been weaning myself off mass-media social: forgive me, hacker, it’s been (only) three days since my last reddit/twitter/FB post. RE FOSS, I volunteer with some projects like EmacsConf and GNU Savannah. If you are looking to get involved with FOSS volunteering but aren’t sure where you can get started HMU :)
Ahem. Meanwhile, in the interest of full disclosure. About Emacs…
Passion for Emacs has been likened (variously derisively or with found amusement) to religious fervor.
I help with the annual conf, like I mentioned. I make official binaries for Emacs available from GNU FTP servers/mirrors. I help with ERC, one of the IRC clients that ships with Emacs. I’m making an RPG engine for Emacs called dungeon-mode. I feel that this post will be incomplete unless I tell you even more about Emacs right now:
Emacs is a text editor built around a lisp machine. Most of it is implemented in Emacs Lisp (elisp). It can be customized using menus, like a normal program. Or using code, programs full of code, auto-generated programs, self-modifying programs, and so on… such nonsense for a text editor to be doing any of this, of course.
Hopefully, you can see where I occasionally get myself in trouble. Every once in a while I need someone to tell me “no”. To say “Corwin. Oh, Corwin. The X forum doesn’t want to hear about how you integrated X into Emacs.” “STFU about Emacs please Corwin”, And so forth.
TIA if that’s you.
In conclusion, when you are ready to talk about Emacs, find me on IRC corwin@libera.chat#emacs.
MN; 48/wm/2 partners 17y/5y, 5kids, 5cats. emacs4evah
Hello 30 year old central Missourian. Had a Reddit and Imgur account, left Reddit at the last purge of subs and users. Have been using Imgur exclusively since then. Not quite the same, except for it also slowly getting worse as they monetize it. I enjoyed woodworking, blacksmithing, leatherworking, ren-faires (shocker given those previous two), and cooking. Past tense as I now have a 1 year old and there’s no time for anything besides work and parenting a baby/toddler with my spouse. Wasn’t planning to interact much, as agreeing to a popular opinion isn’t helpful and I don’t have time for arguing something pointless, however a post below reminded me that I should, as engagement does help grow this new platform. An attempt will be made.
Hey! Welcome. I understand the first year struggle since I have one of my own. Glad you decided to join and engage. If you want, join us on the Matrix channel. We have a lot of great fun talking there. Also, take we have a fatherverse community that might be fun for you as we all recount things about parenting.
Hi, it’s just me, and thanks so much for having me. I had to migrate, I couldn’t abide by the sheer onslaught of typical liberal stuff that began coming in avalanches, lately, and I’ve got a lot of unlearning to do as I continue to properly educate myself.
I was a little confused a while back at a post where a user complained of being banned, but his post was extremely misleading, so I apologize for my confusion. That cleared right up when he showed up in DMs talking about how weird our good host is.
I appreciate your patience and helping me learn. I’m a little slow on the uptake sometimes, so I appreciate directness. I’ll get over hurt feelings, if any are caused by it. Thanks again for allowing me.
Was it the post I locked awhile back? Lol.
Probably. The user was extremely disingenuous, the post showed up in my other feed about a week ago. When I saw the photos in the thread later, I got a clue and the DM was just creepy-cultish. The whole thread ended up being that way. Again, I apologize it took me a minute to catch on.
Lol, people are strange. There was a brony who posted about the thread in a fediverse drama community. A different user DM’d me because he didn’t like something I said so I just banned him.
Either way, welcome.
Thanks so much, again.
It’s interesting that people in the Midwest and Southeast are starting to see what’s happening. Almost like our leaders got overconfident and started doing way too much, way too fast.
Btw, I found the thread. It wasn’t the OP that dm’d me, and I don’t recall whether I’ve personally had issues with them, so if OP happens to see this, here is my apology for that, too. The user in my DM was the creepy one.
Hi, all! I signed up for Lemmy the other day using another instance, but thought this would be a better fit. I’m a 39 year old male who grew up in Ohio and currently resides in Michigan. By day, I’m a Technology & Strategic Project Manager at the University of Michigan. By night, I’m a technology-obsessed, music-loving vegan. I’ve been active on Reddit since 2010 and am disappointed to see the direction it’s going. I’m quite active on Mastodon, so feel free to connect with me there, as well!
I’m a new Lemmy user, teacher, and cyclist from the St. Louis area. Hello everyone!
hi from Peoria, IL. Been here about 6 months and just found the docs, lol. Thanks to all you admin types driving. Good times.
Hola… from Colorado here. Hope everyone is doing well out there……
