Basically what the title says. Tell us about yourself and how you got here!

  • Emily@lib.lgbtEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Hi! I’m Emily. I’m a transfem lesbian programmer leftist (I’m the whole ass stereotype TwT) and I also come from reddit. :D

  • smh@lib.lgbtEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hi, I made this account because I’m still figuring out where in the fediverse I belong. I migrated away from Reddit for the same reasons as everyone else. So far this instance seems nice and chill.

  • ɢᴜᴍᴅʀᴏᴘʙᴜɴɴɪᴇꜱ@lib.lgbtEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hello! Like most, I’m fleeing Reddit following the API changes and finding that I actually like this place a lot more. It brings to mind early 00s Internet where it was a much tighter community and your voice was actually heard (prior to shouting into the void xD)

    Anyway, I’m Sebastian - Seb is fine. Homoromantic ace medical student from England, UK. Looking forward to (hopefully) making friends here!

  • nac@lib.lgbtEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hello! I’d rather not share my name but I am happy to say we share values.

    Like everyone I’m looking for places after reddit. And I like redundancy. This isn’t my first instance I registered at but I thought it’d be good to have one that I know won’t attract certain types of negative people.

  • influx@lib.lgbtEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hey all, I’m @Influx, friend of @Veraticus from various tech/gaming circles. Like everyone, a reddit refugee, and thinking hard about how I want to engage in social media from here on. Interested in music (mostly electronic), games, AI, and the intersections thereof.

    Like @xeger, I’m not totally convinced that Lemmy will get enough content to really bootstrap healthy communities, but also open to creative thoughts about how to generate that content.

  • HeapOfDogs@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hello, I’m from the beehaw server and just happened to see your messages. I’m just interested in learning more about this whole federated thing and exploring all these interesting little communities. ❤️

      • HeapOfDogs@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Thanks! These little instances kind of remind me of the old 90s Internet. Tiny communities doing their thing but still public. I love that I’m on beehaw and here at the same time and others from other places can also chime in.

        • Veraticus@lib.lgbtOPMEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yeah it is cool; they remind me a bit of old-school message boards too, but, like, with a joined backend so you don’t have to participate in just one.

          Reddit did wind up crushing all of those… but I think the Fediverse has some advantages relatively. Except in Google search results, where all the good things are still, well, reddit.

          Hopefully some lessons have been learned about where to put good content in the future.

  • alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hi! I’m alex (they/he), I like small instances and am trans so I figured this would be a nice place to check out :)

  • heartnotglands@lib.lgbtEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hi everyone! I’m heartnotglands, I met Veraticus via some discord stuff. I’m a trans woman in the greater DMV area :) I’m pretty into tech and interested in learning more about stuff like this!

  • norcalgeek@lib.lgbtEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hi! I’m Charlotte. I’m a trans woman in Northern California (think rural farms, not San Francisco or redwoods). I am an advocate for data privacy, free and open source software, and decentralization on the web. To that end I am active on Mastodon, i self-host as much as I can, and I am a member of the Nextcloud community. I am here to learn and to connect with like-minded, queer folx.

  • VVoVVEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m the InkWeaver (VVoVV <- Spider on the ceiling)

    … I’m also Frank at Crossnokaye, colleague of Veraticus and a refugee from Reddit.

  • Fantasmita@lib.lgbtEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    H1ª I’m Fantasmita. I’m a non-binary, asexual and aromantic person from Spain. I work as programmer, and I have interests on computers, retro computers, astronomy, role playing games (specially on D&D), science, science fiction and fantasy. I’m pro open source software, and leftist. Also, I’m another Reddit refuge.

  • Brunacho@feddit.clEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hi, the discomfort by the current state of web2.0 things have been making me flee into decentralized platforms during this last year. In particular the Reddit changes are the ones that made me leave Reddit, though I was sporadically active there -though long time user- and, tbh, the only actual subreddit I really enjoyed (and I usually joke about it being the Only Good Subreddit) is r/askhistorians. So far I am enjoying the threadiverse despite how rough around the edges it still is and I have been more active in this last few days than probably been on reddit for a year. Every now and then I search for instances and communities around the lemmyverse explorer to find interesting communities and I believe that’s how I got here.

    About who I am, My name is Bruno, I am a 38 yo cisgender gay leftist based in Uruguay. I do research in mathematics for a living and I enjoy playing Nintendo games. I am very bad at writing introductions so I guess I’ll finish here but maybe add things later as they come into mind.

  • Veraticus@lib.lgbtOPMEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Hello darlings!

    I’m @Veraticus, sometimes known as Josh. I set this instance up partly to join my friends together, partly to have a space that 100% aligns with my own politics and interest, and partly because setting up new servers is fun.

    Looking forward to chatting with people here.