Hello world! - Please introduce yourself here

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Welcome to SDF Chatter - a federated Lemmy instance

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ThreeHalflings@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Not much to introduce, I’m new, Hi.

I just wanted to say, you folks are all lovely. The sense of community you get in the posts and comments, the genuine care and respect for other people in the conversation.

I’m happy to be here, hopefully the vibe weathers the user storm.

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KhazAkar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello! I’ve joined here to help you grow in userbase, share my love to technology and stuff with others. Something about me - I work for 3+ years in automotive space as system test engineer, writing tests in python, analyzing requirements and so on. Currently dabbling with DevOps related work and learning Nim and Ada in my private time, alongside sharpening my python skills. I hope that I will stay with you guys, just like with your Mastodon instance :)

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grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hi! I just joined up. I have an sdf.org account from forever ago, and when I saw that sdf had a Lemmy instance I knew that was the one to join.

Reddit is too stressful right now. I don’t know if my favorite client will remain functioning or if my subreddits will exist next week. Too much change and I don’t understand the point of it.

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- hamsteronvase@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Not that it matters much now that we have a substitute, but of course the point is money. reddit wants to become a walled garden where the product (you) Is sold and you can use only their clients to visit reddit. We are slipping through their fingers.
  
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jrsharp@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello, SDF World! I’m Jon. SDF is a beautiful oasis…

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communistcapy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hi :)

Reader, writer, musician, scholar, gamer, and hobby coder Capy reporting for duty. I’m waiting to hear back so I can donate for ARPA. I can’t really afford it, but I want to support it anyways.

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delial@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello peeps! I’m delial (/dɛlaɪəl/). I heard about SDF from a random comment on HN about 5 years ago, and I immediately fell in love. I tend to be a lurker, but I hang out on Mastodon and post occasionally.

I’m a professional software dev, and I sling code all day. C# for pay; Rust, Bash, Python, and recently Awk for fun. I have my own little homelab that I’ve been exploring Linux network administration with. Besides that, I watch a lot of horror movies and collect books and comics.

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maneframe@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hi all! Just another ex-Redditor hoping to overcome my lurker inclinations and find some interesting new communities to join

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Nausiyan@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello World! I just got approved today and have been getting use to how it is here and rest of the federated Lemmy. I’m an exile from Reddit and I knew of SDF for quite a while but it took the push from Reddit to come over and sign up for the ssh and Lemmy. So far I am glad to be here and am planning to make ARPA payment when I get my check.

Also if anyone has interesting suggestions or places in the federated Lemmy, let me know. I’m still getting use to here.

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MobiusNone@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello SDF thank you being a good home for tech nerds like me!

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lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello SDF and thanks for hosting Lemmy and Mastodon instances👍

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marvin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Trigger Warnings: depression, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts

Reader discretion is advised.

Hi! I’m Marvin (well here I am Marvin, most people know me under different names), named after a depressed Robot with an immense intellect. I didn’t choose the name because of my intellect…

I’m getting paid pretty badly for being a sysadmin (but I don’t deal with glasspanes or fruits. Only penguins).

In my free time I sometimes code (mostly python, some webdev stuff, sometimes a little bit Rust), once in a blue moon strum some things on my guitar,go climbing, do some shitty woodworking and loads of other stuff. I think I might have ADHD because it’s hard for me to focus on most things and my interest in stuff quickly dwindles. That’s why I have loads of unfinished projects or ideas lying around.

I love metal music.

I’m pretty shy and suffer from social anxiety. I’ve been single most of my life and am kind of a loner.

The two times I’ve been in relationships were pretty abusive and left me yearning for death, a feeling I had throughout most of my childhood. I think talking to people I find attractive was hard before all that but it feels like nowadays it’s impossible. Also I have no clue how to tell if someone is interested in me. I never was. Only in hindsight.

I’m pretty lonely but too scared to do anything about it.

I’ve been clean and sober for almost 6 years now. Which doesn’t help in getting to know people. I know was way more talkative and outgoing when I drank. But I could never stop when I started.

Im in my midthirties and to be honest I still feel like the last years of school were the best time of my life.

I’ve been through a lot of therapy, which helped me a lot with my confidence and to deal with my thoughts and feelings. I’m a lot better than I’ve.been most of my life but life still sucks most of the time.

Here is something I could never tell anybody IRL: even though my life is pretty good right now and I have not had any suicidal thoughts in a long time I am pretty sure that I will be the one to end my life. It won’t be in the forseeable future but I can’t see myself getting old on this rotten planet with so many rotten peaople.

Sorry to be such a downer but it feels great to be honest. And that’s something that is really hard for me. Especially to people I care about and that includes myself :)

Hope you all are living your best life out there!

And as some pretty awesome musicians said: Rock on! And be excellent to each other!

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- hamsteronvase@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  I’m sorry to hear you’re that depressed and the future looks so dark. I was once exactly where you are, and had been for decades. If your therapist can put you on something to quell anxiety, use that opportunity to try baby steps that feel safe and mingle with the humans. Maybe a cooking class, or a trail hiking group; the focus is not on conversation but you can practice little by little. You will fail, but they’ll be small failures, and eventually you will get a win. You can even discuss and craft the plan with your therapist and come back next week to talk about how the meetup / interest group / class went. Another thing, be very selective about whom you call ‘friend’. Don’t connect with people who don’t build you up. There -is- a way out, and you can proceed safely at your own pace. Bestest of luck.
  
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- quickleft@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  a depressed guitar-playing sysadmin who identifies with marvin the martian… I was like “wait is this my dad?” Well he he retired now.
  
  FWIW he has managed to get old (2x your age) and even though I had a somewhat strange childhood I wouldn’t choose a different parent even if I could. A lot of people I know who had “normal” parents suffered a lot at their hands in ways that were not even conceivable to me. He didn’t get any kind of therapy til more recently and it has vastly improved things for him and those around him.
  
  I’m one of few in the world who know him and he is one of my favorite people.
  
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saba@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello, I’m saba! I’ve been on sdf a few years, can’t remember exactly when I signed up. I’m currently a metaarpa supporter because sdf provides a lot of great services to people with similar interests to me. I’ve been on the mastodon.sdf.org instance since it’s beginning. I signed up on lemmy.ml 3 years ago when I first heard of it and then didn’t really visit it much for a couple years. With the recent reddit exodus, I started using it again. When I noticed it was getting busier, I thought it would be great if sdf hosted an instance, then I got the email about this instance! Great to be here! You can also chat with me on irc or sometimes on com if I have time and am listening to anonradio.

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beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hi SDF! I write programming books, teach programming, and have fun hacking on stuff.

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Nisaea@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hi, I’m Nisaea, and I’m here because this is really cool! Just joined and definitely want to support the coolness! (and maybe play Zork)

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daanger@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hey, everyone! I’m Doug Anger / daanger. I’ve been on SDF for awhile. I’ll likely be a bit quiet here for awhile as I’m working on a master’s thesis, but I’m excited to get better acquainted with more of the community.

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- hamsteronvase@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Best IRL name I’ve seen today
  
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Mr_Vortex@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hey, folks! I’m yet another Reddit leaver looking for a new home on the Internet. I initially wasn’t aware of SDF until I was browsing possible Lemmy instances to join and saw that this one had lots of tech-related communities. I thought it was a good vibe since that’s what I’m interested in as a photographer and gamer, but I had to know what SDF was, so down the rabbit hole I went.

I’m not a programmer or coder and don’t think I could have the patience for it, but this whole thing is fascinating and makes me want to SSH in to SDF! I’ve already ditched Windows for Linux on my home machine, so luckily I won’t be starting from scratch with a terminal. If anyone wants to provide tips or a resource, I’m all ears.

Three cheers for the fediverse!

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funchords@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
It’s been a long time since I was on anything SDF; I remember it but that’s about it. I’m glad you’re here though doing this Lemmy thing.

I’m a 15-year Redditor looking for the next thing to USEFULLY sap my attention and my time! :-)

Hello everyone!

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HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Another Reddit leaver here. I figured I’d go back after the original two-day blackout, but I’ve pretty much abandoned it; I haven’t seen that many tone-deaf responses in a row since I tried out for “Name That Tune”.

I had been vaguely aware of the SDF project before this, so I figured “okay, this is an instance that’s probably likely to survive, and perhaps a little less politically loaded than some other choices.”

My first Unix-flavoured setup was throwing Minix 2.0 on a 16MHz 286 clone in like 1998. Still have a bit of affinity for the vintage kit, but I traded away too many of the interesting Unix boxes I had back in the days when the local university would sell them as scrap for pennies, (HP 712/60, Sun Ultra 10), so now I have to just run FVWM with too many CDE-inspired visual features for the same effect.

I tend to find the Fediverse concept interesting because it decouples presentation from content. Right now, we’re obviously still very much following the prototype Digg and Reddit gave us, but maybe there’s an entirely new universe of ways to consume cat pictures we’re on the cusp of discovering.

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grey@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
I’m grey. I’ve use the SDF European server since 2013 and found it pretty useful. I’m American, I don’t know why I used the EU server back then. 2013 was a long time ago, lol. I don’t really have any reason to switch to the American one.

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peron@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hi @SDF, I’m peron, a SDF user from #Argentina.

I’m an individual interested in historical operating systems, synthesizers, anonymity-respecting communities and cooperative electronic communication environments.

I certainly enjoy login into public machines, and meeting new friendly people. SDF provides a nice suite of free-access federated services, including its Mastodon instances, PixelFed and now Lemmy. Greetings to all my friends and kind people on the Telematic Fortress.

If anyone is interested in knowing a bit more about me, you can check this pseudoanonymous bio webpage. peron.sdf.org/whoami/

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huntr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Been here for a few days but hello world!

Just glad there’s enough content to mostly stay here vs give any traffic to Reddit

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IntergalacticTowel@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hey! I’m another reddit refugee, was so excited to find about things like Lemmy and Kbin (already a very light user of Mastadon when… things… happened to the bird site). I am ashamed to say that I wasn’t familiar with SDF until I looked at smaller instances that had great uptime. Saw this one, did me a Google, and… what an awesome community! The fact that you guys have been doing the public access thing since before my family even owned a PC is incredible.

Anyway, instant fan of all you do.

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- jbaber@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Don’t be ashamed to say you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000. Join on up and ssh in.
  
  xkcd.com/1053/
  
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jefurii@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello world! I spend my work days logged in to some servers which if I interpret mtr correctly are just up the hill from SDF in Tukwila. I joined SDF in 2010 after watching SMJ’s interview on the BBS Documentary. It’s neat to be able to log in to this living UNIX system and type w and see a bunch of other people logged in doing their thing whatever that is.

I’ve been a Reddit user since almost the beginning - my carefully curated set of subreddits have been my favorite way to follow my interests over the years. I love old.reddit’s clunkiness and information density. I’m intrigued by decentralization and federation and think it would be cool to move away from the big silos.

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Rbon@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello world! I’m one of the many reddit refugees who found out about lemmy after the blackouts. The ray of light in the whole twitter debacle was finding out about mastodon, and the greater fediverse, so when I saw reddit going the same direction, I was already primed to look for a federated platform to jump ship to.

Lately I couldn’t help shake the feeling that the current state of the internet was just wrong, and I longed for the early days when it felt like a giant collection of unique and interesting communities, all linking to each other. I truly feel like this is the next step in the evolution of the world wide web, and that massive corporate-controlled social media websites were just a brief distraction from actual progress.

It’s good to be home.

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rickumali@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
rgu here! Excited to see this option opening up :-)

Edit: I’m a Husband, a Dad, and an Old Man working in tech. Hello everyone…

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epl692@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Hello, epl692 here. Been an SDF user since… Oh… 2006 or so. That was a good year for SDF I think. Well… A good year to sign up. Been with the community since. Not always active, but im enjoying the Lemmy and Mastodon instances, board, irc, com, etc. Anyways, good to be here and still figuring this out. I have a reddit account. But always found the site to be somewhat limiting. Maybe I was shy? Anyways. Hello, world. Anyone know of a good command line client? I found neonmodem, but I can’t seem to get it to work.

EDIT: It’s neonmodem, not neomodem (made the correction), and it works just fine in the latest version, especially when you get your password right! Ha!

epl692.

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rattmatz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Here’s the required introduction blurb. I’m just glad to have another usable social media site that isn’t trying to IPO or turn a huge profit I guess. I’ve been part of SDF for over 20 years.

Thoughts on the reddit exodus, if any? Most of these forums only last a few years. How long were you on Slashdot? Kuro5hin? Plastic? HuSi? BinRev? SA? Or any of the multitudes of phpBBs that are(were) out there? Reddit ain’t gonna disappear instantly, but it might be at its apex and start going downhill. These things(forums/boards/etc) don’t last forever, and are rarely profitable, thus don’t last long, and those that do become pretty boring, attract to many trolls/riffraff, or scare away all the interesting people.

It’s nice that things are kind of decentralizing, hopefully for the better.

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fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

[SDF email] could you introduce yourself

Howdy. I’ve had an SDF shell account since 2006 at least. I can see mail in my outbox there with that date. Been dorking around with linux since the early 90s, and ran a fidonet node back then (on dos/DESQview!).

I live offgrid in a campervan with dogbeest Muffin. RIght now I am at ~8,200ft overlooking Los Alamos, NM.

and share your thoughts in regards to the Reddit migration and the Fediverse in the !sdfpubnix ?

I’d looked noncommittedly at Mastodon and Lemmy before, but had no real reason to invest the time. Before things got truly bad at Birdsite I test-drove Mastodon and liked it so much I stayed there and deleted my twitter account.

Based on that success I took another look at lemmy/kbin. Apparently the API Wars were starting but I was ignorant of them when I made a lemmy account.

I mod a couple tiny van-related subredits. So when I decided on lemmy over kbin I found my home here and started a community for people who live in cars, vans, and RVs. I am leaving the reddits subs open but with a sidebar link here. I’ll probably post OC to both in the interim.

I have unsubbed from the gargantuan (2mil+) vandwellers subreddit there although I run some canned searches so I can help with niche questions in my wheelhouse. Hopefully by the end of the year I will transitioned fully from reddit to lemmy.

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hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Well the recent SDF Lemmy email requested an introduction and comment about what we think re: the reddit to Lemmy exodus.

I’m hobbsc (aka cmhobbs, notcmhobbs, nilmethod, rev. dok. granggggg, etc). Been an SDF user for a minimum of 20 years. Love the place. More info plus fedi links etc: hobbsc.sdf-us.org

My thoughts on the reddit exodus? I’m indifferent. I’m just a passive consumer of reddit content. I don’t currently have an account. I just hope that the communities that leave go somewhere public and searchable instead of places like discord where the info will be locked away. Much like the stack exchange sites, reddit holds a wealth of useful information.

Glad to see SDF running more federated services, too. It fits well with the general theme of the fortress.

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- dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  dok??? i think i know that name…
  
  or is the dok on irc a different one?
  
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  - hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Likely someone else
    
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SDF@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
We just made it past 1000 signups this morning. Nearly everyone joining had very thoughtful and meaningful explanations of why they want to try using this instance. It is an amazing time for the internet and we truly appreciate SDF being a part of this.

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