Welcome to SDF Chatter - a federated Lemmy instance
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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SDF in 2004
That license plate though!
Are these the alphas?
Hello, everyone!
I am a software engineer and consultant. I started out working in Assembly and Fortran, which will give you some idea of how long I’ve been around… These days I work for a company that provides internet solutions to non-profits. I love working with people who are trying to make the world a better place.
I have always been a gadget geek and have unreasonably large collections of multitools, knives, flashlights, pens, and similar things. I also know more about things like metallurgy, LED technologies, and ink chemistry than I have any need for, but it all keeps me entertained.
Ultimately, I like people. I’m something of an introvert, which makes it harder for me to make contacts, but I really enjoy talking with people. The extreme polarization of views we have at the moment is deeply disturbing to me, but I am trying hard not to hate the extremists as people, even while working to repair all the damage they are doing. I still believe that we have more in common than we do differences.
reddit was my primary online community for well over a decade. Now that I no longer want to be there I’m grateful that SDF is helping to provide a better venue. And I appreciate the rest of you for providing a friendly community.
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!
Hi SDF! I write programming books, teach programming, and have fun hacking on stuff.
Hello. I’m someone who’s previously/currently had accounts with 2 other nonprofit Unix shell account providers similar to SDF since approximately 1996/1997, and first found out about SDF maybe 10 years later while looking for other email-account-provider options. Then, last year, I saw SDF’s Mastodon instance listed on
joinmastodon.org, and decided to sign up for an account there… which eventually (thanks to the email announcement that was sent to users registered there) led me to this Lemmy instance.I suppose the main reason why I decided to sign up here is out of hope that ActivityPub/Fediverse will become similar to, but better than, the various types of discussion forum systems (Usenet/NNTP, mailing lists, mailing list archivers like Pipermail & MHonArc, phpBB/vBulletin-style web forums) that were popular in the '90s and '00s. Personal blogging/microblogging systems (Mastodon, etc.) aren’t an adequate replacement for newsgroups/forums, as far as I’m concerned; to paraphrase something I read elsewhere, too much of so-called social media is mostly about “look at me”, as opposed to “look at this” (i.e. organized by topic).
(By the way: Lemmy currently seems to have some sort of incompatibility problem with QtWebEngine and/or the Falkon web browser. I initially tried to post this from Falkon, but the “Preview” and “Post” buttons were disabled even after typing some text, so I ended up posting this from Firefox instead.)
“look at me”, as opposed to “look at this”
Well put!
You beat me to it. That phrase caught my eye, too. I have been laboring for decades under that banner without having seen it put so succinctly.
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.
Don’t be ashamed to say you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000. Join on up and ssh in.
Hello SDF and thanks for hosting Lemmy and Mastodon instances👍
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.
Hello from my corner of the universe!
A fish wearing a bow tie is sofishticated. 😏
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hello SDF,
Name’s Rosco. I’m new to Lemmy - and the whole Fediverse ecosystem as a whole. I’ve been interested for a while but hadn’t really done anything to discover it. I figured the Reddit debacle was a good opportunity to take the plunge: I recently nuked my old Reddit account, then created another one, then realized I was beating a dead horse.
I’m new to SDF too. I didn’t know it before searching for a nice Lemmy server I’d feel at home on. As an old Unix hack, SDF is right up my alley.
So here I am. Thank you for having me! I hope to contribute something of value on here.
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. http://peron.sdf.org/whoami/
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I had only heard about SDF from reading comments in Hacker News. But it’s really right up my alley. My first experiences on the internet was interacting through a local freenet dialup shell in the early 90’s and spending way too much time on MUDs, and downloading porn on usenet for view on my fancy VGA monitor.
Back in my day you had to work for your porn and imagine your video game graphics, and that’s the way it should be. :old man finger waggle:
