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.

printf("Hello, @SDF!\n");

Hello. Just joined myself.

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.

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!

Hello, SDF.

Hello World!!! I am... ;)

Hi! I'm a developer (mainly backend, but studying system programming and happily tinkering after work). I'm considering closing my accounts on centralised social networks for good. I've tried mastodon and nostr, but the microblogging format is not something I particularly enjoy. I'm also setting up my capsule in the gemini space and trying out gopher as well. Happy to connect there as well if anybody is interested :) You'll find me commenting/reading on lobste.rs as well.

Hello SDF! Thanks for hosting Lemmy and mastodon. I like the Minecraft server too. I'm just a geek that likes open-source and have no idea what I'm doing half the time.

I had to scroll through this thread because I thought I commented already but it looks like I didn't.

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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it's me, saba (or sam)! Been here a long time, but not on much. Currently trying to follow lemmy stuff from my #snac instance

Hello!

Greetings to higher primates.

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.