Welcome! Feel free to introduce yourself here in the c/main channel if you’d like.
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Great to see you on BE: 0.18.3 Lemmy progress
Hi! I’m @slackadelic as you can tell! I’ve used this moniker for many years. The root of the nick comes from Slackware Linux many, many moons ago. I’m a father first, a husband second, and a gamer the rest of the time!
I like to play a lot of different games including #TheDivision2, #SeaOfThieves, #Battlefield (4 or 2042, either works for me).
My biggest hobby is streaming! You can always find me on #YouTube under my tag of slackadelicYT (yeah, whomever has my proper moniker never uses their account! ARGH!)
My main concentration right now for gaming is #TheDivision2 right now.
Other things I’m into:
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Information Technology - This is my primary field of study and have been doing it for many, many years My main concentration is networks and network engineering. I do have a pretty complicated setup at home, comes with the territory!
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Date nights with my wife! Love hanging out with my lady!
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Spending time with my kiddos. When they’re not fighting each other and making a mess :)
I’m also a proud father to a recent high school graduate! Very, very proud of her!
Anything else, just ask!
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Hi there from Madison, WI! I am the developer of Voyager :)
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.
@[email protected] Is there a like a standard amount new people should donate to the server?
No, whatever you want to donate is welcome
I just noticed that librepay doesn’t have 2fa, does the instance have an open collective page?
Crap, I thought they’d make that feature available by now. No, I haven’t set up an opencollective yet unfortunately.
Just setup the donation on librepay! Though I’ll say that I feel a bit uneasy that it doesn’t have 2fa. Do you think setting up opencollective might be a feasible thing or should I maybe look at getting a disposable debit card for librepay?
I looked into opencollective and it’s a bit more involved than liberapay. I think I’d have to register as a 501c3. I would just set up a strong password with Bitwarden or similar.
I looked at it, if you choose the “any community” option it’ll be more straight forward
oh, yeah, I thought it was more like patreon, oh well I’ll just go with the strong password
Guess I’ll just use long password and maybe put a cap on my debit card
Alrighty, I think $10 is probably doable for me, hopefully that helps
Thanks!
Course, need to offset the amount of shitposting I do
Another former reddit user from the Twin Cities here. Enjoying learning about lemmy so far, still trying to figure out how it works! Big fan of disc golf, board games, books, and video games.
Yet another reddit refugee, but the only thing I will miss is the niche animal husbandry subreddits.
My main interests are critter genetics & habitat management, and a lot of husbandry n enrichment on the side. Always been a bit of a pain to be lefty & interested in livestock, most of the old forums such as they still exist are full of people that are pretty aggressive in their disapproval of my sort. But maybe I’ll find a niche eventually!
I do other science n tech reading and cruise some of the hobby stuff (carpentry, mini terrain, jewelry making… I like a little bit of a lot of things) but don’t usually post as much as lurk those areas.
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Welcome to this little corner of the internet. I feel you on not being able to just sit around and hoping it blows over. I had a rather traumatic epiphany back in 2019 that I wasn’t going to be able to sit on the sidelines while fascism takes hold. I feel a lot better nowadays despite everything going on because I started finding people in my local community who felt the same way and wanted to make tangible change in our lives and the lives of others.
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@seahorse Hey everyone!
I’m primarily operating over on Mastodon, but I was a huge lurker of r/Indiana and r/Indianapolis on reddit, mostly for local news and city updates, and it’s so refreshing to find this.
I’m located in the Indy area and I’m into making music, audio engineering, and a bit of photography. Huge runner, ran the Indy Mini for the first time this year and I’m already signed up for next year. Originally from NWI so a huge fan of the dunes and the outdoors as a whole.
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
Thank you for your edit to your post. I agree, engagement is key. I never posted on read, just consumed. Your edit encouraged me to be different this time. I want lemmy to succeed and grow. Liking what I see so far!
I have been meaning to get into the expanse. I’ve heard such great things about the show, and the books were often recommended on the various books subreddits when searching for sci-fi books. Will have to start that series.
I’m also reading the expanse. I’m just on book 2 though…my reading time is limited.
That just means you get to savour it for longer :) By far my favorite series Edit: I thought this was a new thread 😂
It’s a great read but a lot to books! Enjoy!
I just started Leviathan Wakes on Libby. It feels like a slow start… I cant tell if thats actually the case or I am just too burnt out.
What kind of cycling? I’m in the market for a mountain bike at the moment but I’m hemming and hawing since the market seems shitty (and I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing)
Cheers, from Missouri.
I, like plenty of the other people here, come from Reddit. I’m into maker things, and I’m trying to improve those skills, learn to solder, learn CAD, etc. I also have IT skills regarding PC building and maintenance. Looking forward to being here.
Hi. I’m looking for weird shit in the Internet. I decided to hop on Midwest.social to ease the burden in Lemmy.ml
I’m an Iowan academic sociologist working in private analytics trying to address homelessness. Been a Reddit user for a long time (digg before that) and now I am here.
Hello! I’m a Wisconsinite soon moving to Minneapolis. Born and raised in western Wisconsin.
