the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the “how was your week” thread isn’t a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples’ posts aren’t getting lost.
tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don’t gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this’ll be a good way of getting to know all the people you’re now on here with
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Howdo champions!
I’m Darren. He/him. I live right in the middle of the south of England with my wife, where I work in quality and health and safety management.
I have a background in radio, podcasting, and welding, so if you want any tips on those very connected subjects, I’m your man. Music is my main love, but I can’t play a note.
I have ADHD, which is why I’ve been posting on here so much instead of doing what I’m getting paid to do.
I feel that last part, luckily my job only really requires 3 hours of work and the rest is just trying to look busy.
I’m in a weird position at work, where the managing director values neither of the things I do, so doesn’t really have any idea what I’m up to. As a result, I could literally spend the entire day fucking about online, and he’d have no idea how it was affecting the outcome of what I do.
Hello from Canada!
I recently got an adult ADHD diagnosis, so navigating that has been pretty eye opening.
Do you run a podcast? Or more into other aspects of it?
Hello!
I got my diagnosis a few years ago at 39, so yeah, I know exactly where you’re coming from.
I’ve run a few podcasts over the years, but nothing that could be considered a success really. I liked what I did, as did the half dozen or so regular listeners I was able to entice, but by and large my efforts went unnoticed, so I became disheartened and burned out and so gave up.
I am also a redditor who came here yesterday. I am a snake and reptile loving lady (she/her) with ADHD who gets really obsessed with new and novel things, so of course I signed up for several different fediverse sites yesterday and am getting the hang of them.
For this site, I’m mainly looking for a kinder, smaller Reddit. I grew up on the internet in the early to mid 2000s and I really miss the smaller, tight-knit forum communities that were the norm back then. A small niche subreddit scratched that itch somewhat, but I still never really learned who the individual people in my frequented subreddits were, you know? It felt like less of a community.
My main hobbies are games (MMOs, simulators, cozy games, etc), crafts (cross stitch right now, but also crochet and knitting), and reading.
looking for a kinder, smaller Reddit
Exactly what I’m looking for these days! All the communities I find online are so combatative and exhausting - everyone seems trying to one up each other and getting aggressive at the slightest disagreement as if being performative for an audience.
Nice to meet ya. Do you have any reptilian pets? Pls share pics if you do!
I do! Here’s a pic of my leopard gecko, Gorrik!
Awww that’s a cute gecko-boi Does he let you cuddle him? I’ve heard a few geckos are cuddly
I haven’t knitted in ages but I’m a keen crafter and do a lot of sewing, some embroidery/cross stitch, pottery, woodworking, and general artsy stuff. I have a heap of wool I need to spin so I can get back into wool crafts but I promised myself I would finish my crockery set first 🙃
What games have you been playing lately?
Wow, you do all the crafts! Lol
I’ve been replaying The Talos Principle lately. I also recently dug out my Switch again and am playing Spiritfarer and Cozy Grove on there.
Haha yeah I really really love making things.
I really need to save for a switch. I’ve been replaying all the old humongous pc games for nostalgia but it would nice to have a console again
I see that you have a profile picture, are you willing to share how to set one?
In the jebora app you can go to settings -> profile and set display name, bio and profile pic. Hope that helps :)
Cool beans! I’m in the ADHD club too, and recently got into crochet, but I’ve done embroidery, knitting, and general sewing too. Fiber crafts rock.
They’re like, the perfect craft for keeping your hands occupied while listening to podcasts.
Yay! A fellow knitter! I saw some knitting posts on the DIY community; socks, sweater, yarn.
hello, everyone!
like many, i’m a soon-to-be former redditor (as was a Digger before that). I’m a freelance designer living in Brooklyn, nyc. i like star trek, star wars, and most other sci-fi. I’m also an LGBTQ+ activist and have been fighting for LGBTQ+ equality for over 25 years. Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈
HAPPY PRIDE, MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU MY FRIEND
Happy Pride!
i would be remiss to not start this off myself: i’m alyaza, one of the three admins here (and probably the one you’re most likely to interact with day-to-day, although i have a lot going on). i am nonbinary and my pronouns are they or she, although i can’t imagine in most contexts on here you’d need to use them. i find a lot of stuff interesting, which i think reflects in the pretty eclectic mixture of stuff i post on here. i also read a lot, so if you’re interested in non-fiction book suggestions i would probably be a good person to turn to.
I would be extremely interested in notification books, I’m currently working on Pests by Bethany BrookShire, what are you into? What’s the best one you’ve read this year?
generally i am an equal opportunity reader. the past few months have been a climate change nonfiction binge so there are a lot of books i can talk about in that field. i’ll probably make that a separate reply since it’s so long. outside of that the most recent one i finished was Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. his entire bibliography is a pretty good read, particularly Into Thin Air about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster and Into the Wild, abut the late and eclectic wilderness guy Christopher Johnson McCandless.
The Woman Who Wasn’t There is a curious one about a fake 9/11 survivor which is accompanied by a movie of the same name. both are pretty good; i saw the movie before the book. for lighter reading, Coyote America is a fun one–that’s about the eponymous coyote and its history as a species. reaching a little further back i was also a fan of A History of America in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps because i love it when books analyze history through an unconventional lens like that
and here’s all the climate change books. my suggested permutations:
- if you’re a pyromaniac, the path of Fire in Paradise, Paradise, Megafire, Firestorm, and The Pyrocene should satisfy that itch.
- the doomer trifecta is probably Fire and Flood, Losing Earth, and Nomad Century so if you want to know how badly we fucked this one up they go into that quite intimately
- wonks will probably enjoy Nomad Century, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, and California Burning as they deal with policy and policy prescriptions in decent droves
- people looking for something less emotionally devastating should read the optimistic chapters of The Best of Times, The Worst of Times (it is structured to alternate pessimism/optimism chapters) and Choked (which has a generally positive outlook)
- Extreme Cities is a Verso book, and so is probably the most socialist-oriented of these
- if you want to be emotionally devastated on a personal level: read the two Paradise books (ideally back-to-back) or one of them and The End of Ice
ordered by year
- Extreme Cities: Climate Chaos and the Urban Future by Ashley Dawson (2016)
- The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell (2017)
- Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future by Edward Struzik (2017)
- Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame by Michael Kodas (2017)
- Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner (2019)
- The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail (2020)
- The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science by Paul Behrens (2020)
- Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich (2021)
- The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next by Stephen J. Pyne (2021)
- Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, From 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden (2022)
- Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World by Gaia Vince (2022)
- The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle (2023)
California specific appendix
- Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano (2020)
- Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson (2021)
- California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric–and What It Means for America’s Power Grid by Katherine Blunt (2022)
Hello, I’m Butterbee. I’m a transwoman in her 40’s who joined Beehaw at the end of January and have been mostly just browsing. My activity should be picking up; It’s energizing seeing all the new folk come by!
I’m into -3d art, mostly textures and materials but I have an appreciation for all aspects of the craft. -Gaming! I play euro truck sim 2, rimworld, and Overwatch though that’s been less and less and less and now practically none thanks to the sad state Blizzard has put themselves, their employees, and their games in. But I love that colourful optimistic heroic aesthetic. Maybe I’ll find another game with the same vibe. I will also play just about any coop game with friends. -Urbanism. I’m more on the NotJustBikes side than F*KCars. I love my ebike and want to see more changes in my community that allow me to get around without using an automobile. If we get an urbanist community here, I’ll be in there. -I am also fond of bees.
I can also bee found at @Butterbee@mastodon.art
Beeeehaw!!
Another Reddit migrator here. I’m 25, trans nb. I’m an artist, and my hobbies include film, books, games and anime. More specifically I love horror movies/books and I play loads of things from Splatoon to Minecraft to Dwarf Fortress. Glad to be here :)
Hi all, I’m jdw, yet another Reddit refugee. After being on Reddit for 13 years (and being a Gold subscriber for the last ten of those), I’ve finally had enough of it, and they’ve showed their colours only too well by their actions towards third party clients. I’ve set up a monthly sub with OpenCollective instead!
I’m more of a reader than a poster, but I occasionally comment on things.
Hello everyone! Long time reddit lurker here coming in to check out this new part of the internet. Currently in university for CS and love technology, computer hardware, tennis, videogames, and more recently cars.
Really like the idea of these smaller, more tight nit communities that exist on their own. Excited to see where this goes.
It has a feeling of the ‘older’ internet, doesn’t it?!
I collect some older 486’s myself, since I’m more of a hardware fan than software (if that makes sense!). Have you seen Halt and Catch Fire? If you’re a fan of computers, their history, the builds and all that, the series if 100% worth your time!
It does capture that ‘wild west’ feeling a little bit. I have not seen that series but it looks very interesting! I’ll have to give it a watch.
Yet another reddit refugee. I’ve been fleeing crumbling websites for 20 years. Blogger, LJ, Tumblr, niche forums, delicious, StumbleUpon, Digg, reddit, and so on. I wonder what the next 20 years will be like…
I also tried out Mastodon, but I’ve never been a fan of the Twitter-style social media. Lemmy/Beehaw is more to my liking.
I’m 37 (he/him), a programmer and gamer.
hi all, like many others i’m a redditor in “exile”, following the recently announced changes in policy.
my interests include biking, onewheeling, gaming (modern and retro alike, although not so much online stuff), mental health advocacy, foss and libraries. pronouns he/him.
happy to be here and see how this whole fediverse thing works!
howdy! my username is my actual first name. i’m a software engineer in research in the seattle metro. i’m a cis hetero white guy in my 4th decade and i just recently found out i’m high functioning autistic with a boatload of childhood ptsd that makes it hard for me to be in super social public spaces or anywhere i might inconvenience others by my existence.
i explicitly chose beehaw because i was tired of all the fucking nazis and toxic masculinity asshats traipsing around reddit, and i specifically wanted to be in a community where LGBTQIA+ were explicitly made to feel like they belong.
i like reading, woodworking, pc gaming, ice hockey, my dogs, making and eating good food, slice of life anime and my wife. even if i didnt get paid in golden yachts for my labor i’d still probably be writing code every single day, because it’s just what i do. i’m most happy solving problems, proviso there’s no stress or anxiety around it, because i manufacture all the stress and anxiety the human being needs to survive on it’s own
Hello fellow autistic person with PTSD 👋🏾 I get the part about anxiety. I love to code too!
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Which app are you using for Lemmy? I loved Boost.
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I’ll give it a go! Thank you for the link, much appreciated.
I was a boost user too. I’m using Jerboa. I’ve had some issues with image uploading but hoping it will eventually be worked out
I’m liking the look of it so far. It is indeed very similar to Boost.
Hi everyone!!
As with 99% of those here in this thread, a reddit user and so unenthused about the idea of not being able to choose my app to moderate or scroll. I’ve finally made the jump. My friends all think I am nuts, but I’m set on it. I take privacy and FOSS seriously!
I’ve been on Mastodon twice before, but this time I think I’m making it official, and loving how Lemmy is so far <3
I’m a Linux enthusiast, gamer (just got a Steam Deck! - BoTW via CEMU as Linkle, Stray and now starting the download for Skyrim, hoping that I can mod the game? The only YT video I checked out said that I need it installed on the SSD to work, which is hard since I have the 64gb version), I live for summer. Coffee is my reason for living.
Honestly joining up here feels as good as it did when I ditched the typical socials.
Can’t wait to get to know you all!
Ditto the FOSS love, if that makes you nuts then I guess we both are!
How well has BoTW been running on Steam Deck for you? If I could run that and ToTK emulated on a Deck I think that would be the final nail in the coffin for my switch
I play the WiiU version of BoTW, which is indistinguishable from the Switch one and has the bonus of a crazy modding community behind it. It works beautifully, not one hitch. I use the pre-rendered shader and pipeline cache for it so it has not-a-stutter. I also play at 40fps. And being able to play the whole game as Linkle is so a fun change!
Here is the video I followed, if you wanted a quick look!
Also ToTK is running on the Deck. The r/yuzu and r/newyuzupiracy have a ton of videos playing it, but I’m going to finish BoTW first before tackling the new one!
Here’s a video from a week ago of it running. But I am sure its much better now, as updates and tinkering have moved at a blistering speed over ToTK!
I’m still setting up here, but hello! I go by Dev (he/him), and like a few others, I’m kind of obsessed with trying out new internet spaces, and a friend recommended this place!
Online, I play a lot of MMOs, but I’m also a tech librarian for work alongside being in a professional symphonic band!
I’m not too good at intros, but nice to meet you all!
What does a “tech librarian” do?! That sounds fantastic!
It’s kind of a broad term, but for me personally, it’s someone who does library work more ‘behind the scenes’ of what you think of when you think libraries! For example, like most other librarians, I have my Masters in Library Science, but my work focuses on creating the digital catalog systems that libraries use to keep track of collections, while also doing things like integrating technology into libraries, website stuff, the whole digital side of it all!
Sounds like a great job!
I always wanted to be a librarian, or at least a part of me did. A year or so ago I seriously considered follow it up (that and literally a lighthouse keeper…you can tell how my work had been that particular month!), but never did. So, I’m a little jealous! And your particular field of it all sounds even better.
Those online book borrowing systems for the Kindle/Kobo? Best thing to happen on the digital side of libraries in my opinion!
It’s been awhile since I’ve introduced myself, so I guess I’ll give this a quick whirl.
On the internet I often go by Gaywallet but you can also refer to me as bunny. I’m 35, non-binary (they/them), poly, bay area native residing in SF. I spend a lot of my free time socializing, going to raves or finding EDM to dance to or maintaining relationships with my partners. If I’m unable to occupy my time with any of those I’m either working or consuming media of different sorts - I read a lot of science books and journals, watch plenty of TV and movies, and DJ occasionally. I’m a data scientist in healthcare by trade. I’m passionate about diversity and equity, especially in the healthcare space, but given that I’ve helped a lot with this websites ethos and charge, healthcare is not the only place where I try to champion equity and work towards a nicer, more humane future.
There’s already quite a few usernames I recognize from Reddit in this thread and the most recent batch, and I’m glad to see you all over here. 💜
my wife is a big fan of shipping in fandoms. she also loves genshin impact, and there’s a ship between zhongli (archon of geo) and childe (secret agent of shitheadville). zhongli often uses childe’s seemingly inexhaustible source of funds for various things, and when I saw “Gaywallet” I was 100% sure you were referencing childe being zhongli’s gaywallet.
A joke isn’t funny if you have to explain it, but god damn my wife thought it was the funniest thing ever when I was ruminating on whether your name was a reference to this ship or not.
A lot of people ask where my name comes from. I typically have to ask them where they think it comes from to get quality content like this, but I’m glad you offered it without my prompt! I find other people’s origin stories for my name much more interesting and fun. I should probably start a list somewhere with this information so other people can peruse it.
Yeah, so this is apparently the ship page for it. In the right sidebar, under “Also known as”,
Zhongli and his Wallet.I was convinced that’s what it was from! Unshakeable conviction!
Isn’t a gay wallet where you keep your coins in the sauna? 😃
I’ve seen your name around a bit (I guess as you’re an admin) and I just need to ask - Gaywallet? Is there a story?
As I stated elsewhere, the stories other people come up about the origins of my name are far more interesting 😉
Oh man I totally missed the other comment about it right next to mine…
