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
Hello all! Fellow Reddit-abandoneer here. I’m on mastodon as @hexorg@techhub.social. I have a PhD in cyber security and I specialize in automated binary analysis. I have a collection of laserdiscs and I’m making a 90s themed arcade in my shed.
Hiya, all! I’m Whimseymimple (she/her), a librarian in the United States. I’m moving over here from Reddit, just like many others, but I was an early adopter of Mastodon, which is my main social media these days. I’m invested in privacy, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in the online realm, across the board, and I chose Beehaw because it seems like a good place to have those ideals. I’ve generally been a lurker on Reddit, but Beehaw seems to be a place that I’ll feel a bit more open to discussions.
What’s your favourite part of being a librarian?
I’m an academic librarian on the tech side of things, so I love how varied my job is from day to day. Troubleshooting is definitely one of the best parts (for me), because I get to help someone obtain information and also get to put my investigative brain power to work.
Honestly, helping other people was my main draw to computer science so I can definitely understand that.
Howdy!
I’m primscha, a Thai American lurker from Reddit and really all social media. I’m hoping to change that up a bit and get involved in this community. I’m encouraged by the positivity here. While I don’t have a lot of tech knowledge, I love how developers can get together and create something for other people’s sake— and/or for their own passion projects. It’s very inspiring! I ended up exploring FOSS options for a few years now and the recent uh, events, made me want to join. I’d like to work at some tech startup someday in the user experience design field.
I’m studying graphic design and business administration. When I’m not napping, I randomly tend to these hobbies: volunteering, digital/traditional art, languages (German mainly), anime, and webcomics— but I’d say any topic with me is fine as long as it doesn’t touch politics or mathematics lol (I can try talking about them, just note I’m not well-versed in either subject). I wouldn’t say that I’m worldly, but I’m keen on learning and optimistic about my progress in life so far! (I can make dorky and derpy jokes in the meantime.)
Um, dunno what else to say. I have a dog. He’s a cute but ugly, scruffy maltipoo.
Nice to meet y’all!
Hello everyone! It’s great to be here. I’m a 26 yo trans woman just look for a cool to place to hang and read stuff since reddit seems to be going a poor way. Here’s to Lemmy and beehaw! 🤗
Not sure if I’m too new to tell you welcome, but welcome! Let’s make this place worth welcoming to.
Thank you!!! 🤗
Howdies!!
I’m xorels, a queer (she/her) Irish woman studying cybersecurity. I also game, crochet, and am learning Japanese.
I’ve lately been trying to degoogle and move away from large corporations and towards FOSS software, so joining Beehaw was partly inspired by that and partly by… Reddit. Both the API change and the toxicity on that site. I got sick of reporting harassment and [minority]-phobia and getting ignored, or harassed myself for speaking up. I can’t leave it entirely for a few reasons but at least I can cut down my usage.
I generally don’t post online, I prefer to lurk or comment, but I’ll try and change that if I can. I’m a big fan of the positivity and friendly, nice attitude on here.
Curious, why are you learning Japanese?
I watch a lot of anime and other Japanese media and I got sick of reading poorly-translated subtitles or missing things because of the language barrier/cultural differences. Plus, subtitles means I can’t glance down at my phone or I’ll miss things. (And dubs are the work of Satan). It made sense to me to just… learn Japanese.
It’s slow going, it’s more of a hobby than a serious thing, but I can understand basic sentences in anime, and I recently bought my first Japanese-language manga to try and read through (very slowly, with a dictionary close at hand)
Haha! I knew it, I thought it was a bit odd you didn’t mention anime but wanting to learn Japanese. That’s cool.
What are your favourite animes?
Ooh I’ve an awful memory for remembering what I’ve watched but I’ll have to say my top 3 are The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, Spy X Family, and Monster
Naoki Urusawa’s Monster is great! I wish it had a release on bluray as it is unfortunately stuck with no streaming and only dvd. Have you read of Naoki Urusawa’s other works?
I haven’t, is there anything else of his you’d recommend?
I’d recommend Pluto and 20th century boys.
Pluto is more on the short side and is based on the Astro Boy story with an interesting spin on things.
20th century boys is a mystery story in a dystopian future with a focus on friendships and the past? Not really sure how best to describe it
Howdy everyone!
I’m Cragsand, washed up roleplayer and science nerd. I’m mostly involved in Twitch streaming communities and post content and highlights and memes related to them over on Reddit.
Currently checking out open source and federated alternatives with the whole Reddit charging obscene amounts for API access, basically killing off all of their third party clients.🔥 Glanced at Lemmy but had some concerns regarding the bigger instances… Another project I checked out was KBin which looks promising but has some work cutout to improve their UI.
The subreddit I’m mostly involved in is this streaming/roleplay subreddit:
Would sharing comedic and sometimes mature/borderline nsfw clips and similar even fit in here? Not sure if this is the right place to ask either but appreciate advice! 😉
Cheers
Crag
Hi! I guess you can call me a recurring reddit refugee, as this is like the third time I try to move away from that site to alternatives that feel friendlier and where it feels like you can have more genuine interactions with people. I guess you can still have that experience in smaller subreddits but reddit as a whole also feels increasingly like a site that tries to compete with other popular social media platforms. And that’s really not for me.
So I’ve tried other reddit-like platforms like whoaverse, before it renamed itself to voat and became filled with nazis; Empeopled, which had a really nice community, but eventually folded; Tildes, which was pretty nice but the level of discourse felt a bit…too much, for lack of better wording. Every post read like a essay or something (and not very interesting ones, for the most part), and everyone wanted to discuss about everything under the sun. I have nothing against that, mind you, but I also don’t have much free time or willpower to do that.
And last but not least, Lemmy. When I found out about it, there was only lemmy.ml, so I registered on that instance. Even though I do lean left on the political spectrum, some of the stuff I read on there felt a bit uncomfortable to read. But in general, the site was friendly to use, the community seemed cool, nonetheless, passionate about open-source and libre software, which I also am. Beehaw, so far, seems to have all the advantages I’ve mentioned before, without the caveats…that I’ve also mentioned before. I know nothing is perfect, and seems to be even more true with these kinds of platforms but so far so good :).
Anyway, I’m a 34 year old librarian, who is interested in computer science, Linux and open-source software. On the other hand, I also love games and have been getting into fighting games lately, which are decidedly not open-source but I’m no Richard Stallmann in that regard. Aside from that, love reading (especially about history), music, movies and tv shows, namely anime. Also love me some good manga.
I’ll probably remain a lurker for the most part but will also try and participate as much as time allows.
Hello, fellow librarian!
Hi! Nice, there’s at least 2 of us now!
The predominance of the leftist instances worried me too. Hopefully since this immigration wave isn’t caused by an offcasting of undesirables, it won’t suffer the same problems as voat.
I mean, there’s nothing wrong with a reasonable instance that noticeably veers to the left on the political spectrum but, back then, my first impression of this platform was being very passionate about open-source and libre software, which was great, but when it came to politics, it felt like an echo chamber of “west bad, China good”.
Hopefully, this influx of new users helps with that. One thing I also liked about the other platforms I mentioned was that, namely on Empeopled, we had a lot of community engagement. Like, we had book clubs and music clubs and there weren’t a lot of us but most engaged actively with the site (as far as I can remember anyway). I hope people can replicate the same sense of community here.
“West bad, China good” is definitely not what I’d consider a leftist stance
Hello all!
I’m Hazelnoot (she/they), a Software Developer from the USA. My main interests are Programming, Gaming (PC and TTRPGs), Anime, and Retrocomputing. I’m also proudly transgender and would love to connect with other LGBTQ+ people here!
I’ve got the usual story - decade Reddit user being driven out by API restrictions. In fact, this is actually my second time being pushed off a mainstream platform and onto the Fediverse. I previously left Twitter for Mastodon after Elon Musk took over and all moderation disappeared. I’ve been very interested in Lemmy as a replacement for Reddit, and I’m excited to be here on Beehaw!
Hello!
I am a long time reddit lurker, deleted my account over 5 years ago. Still lurked there because of lack of viable alternative.
Beehaw might be just that.
I am a KDE/FOSS contributor, Linux gamer and gamedev. The rise in games working on Linux couple years ago lured me to try and I’m now stuck on Linux platforms. :) Perfect for me!
Also I am Finnish so if there are other Finnish people here: “Terve!”
Not much else to say really, I don’t want to share my games in my first post but I’ll link them if anyone wants to play them, they’re pay-what-you-want (even nothing) after all.
Currently working on an open source “doom-clone” FPS written in C, using Raylib library.
PS. Last time I tried Lemmy I didn’t feel like I fit in due to everyone being so angry all the time. I understand vetting frustrations but it was just anger pretty much all the time. I hope Beehaw is different in that regard. I love the fact that there’s no downvote button!
Suomi mainittu!
Another Reddit refugee here (Redditugee?).
Based in the UK, I love anything space related hence the Astro part of my name. Reading, tech, and gaming are other loves.
I’m liking what I can see of this fediverse so far, let’s hope it continues to flourish.
I’m Gris:
I’m a medical student in the US and a refugee from reddit. I have a lot of different interests that vaguely align with what seems to be the topics of interest here. Things like politics, technology, ethics/philosophy, science(particularly as it relates to the life sciences and medicine).
I chose this instance of Lemmy specifically due to it’s fairly neutral stance to content and the general push for conscientious community interaction (and the generalized focus on a few different subjects, rather than left-wing politics being a central theme pushed me here rather than some other instances I looked at) .
Hi, I’m Lionir but you can just call me Lio.
I’m a young adult and I’ve been involved, even if from quite a distance in the making of Beehaw. I speak French as I’ve notice a few others do.
I’m not sure how to present myself. I’d say I tend to be quite pragmatic in how I talk even though I think I’m generally rather emotionally aware and a good listener. I don’t think that this means that my rationality is more important to me than my emotional sensibility but rather that I’m not really sure how to be useful outside of a pragmatic approach.
I have a wide range of interests. I advocate for privacy, freedom, better working conditions and more generally human rights. I think often about how power structures (for example, capitalism) affect people. I like to talk about what I think is good design. I enjoy anime and video games. I do some programming as I have my own website and maintain packages on Flathub. I’m always looking to learn new things!
I’m glad to see this place alive and well.
Hello to all. I’m yet another reddit refuge. Initially, I was quite bummed at the news about the API price out of the 3rd party apps that had made reddit at all usable. Having discovered Beehaw and Lemmy, I’m becoming quite glad. I’d already abandoned Twitter for Mastadon, but I never quite appreciated that the Fediverse was a thing until the Great Reddit Purge forced me to take a step back and re-evaluate my (digital) life.
I’m now quite glad those bastards are putting the last nail in that particular coffin. I’ve known the Internet from when it was young, and I remember the nettiquette of olde. This place has the feel of those days. It’s nice and refreshing.
I’m an avid computer and cyber security geek with a love of reading, music, programming, sysadmining, teaching, and many other things. It’s great to be here with ya’ll, I’m excited to be part of this great community! :-)
Hello fellow uhh… post-redditor? What parts of cyber security do you like? Funny how most people here are still programmers.
I’ve always been most keen on understanding how offensive cyber is conducted in order to best defend against it. What programming I do is just to facilitate that.
Are you also interested or involved in cyber security?
I work in the industry but on the nation state side. There’s a split in thee industry between corporate and nation state cyber because attack vectors are quite different. Nation states can find a team of researchers to find a zero day in whoever is a target, corporate cyber is likely to phish for access in millions of targets until someone lets them in.
Hello!
I’ve been a Redditor for 11 years - I was even in the Century Club subreddit (it’s not nearly as interesting as you probably think it is).
I work as a AAA game programmer. I previously worked on the Battlefield series, but EA laid me off earlier this year as part of them shutting down my former studio. Now I’m working on a new AAA title I can’t really talk about.
Before I worked in the AAA space, I worked at Disneyland! I used to be a skipper on the World-Famous Jungle Cruise. I also worked as a host at the Tiki Room (fun fact: technically, this is considered part of the Jungle Cruise), a conductor on the Disneyland Railroad, and an “archaeologist” on the Indiana Jones ride they have there (although I disliked working Indy).
As a hobby, I have a model train layout. It’s in N-Scale (1:160). I’m also part of a local model railroad club that periodically meets up and puts together modular layouts. We meet at local convention centers and whatnot, where we string together a bunch of 4x2-foot layout sections that we each individually own/maintain and make one big mega-layout.
I’m super excited to be here!
Nice! I always wanted to make video games but then I was torn between that and cyber security and ended up doing cyber. Do you know programmers from other industries? Is there a gamedev-specific skillet required or could other programmers adjust?
Yeah, people come from all over. Game dev isn’t just “make the game”; there’s other things to think about too.
If you’re making a multiplayer “live service” title then you have to deal with things like AWS or Azure, and everything that comes with that. Tools engineers write the tools that get used to make a game, and generally those tools have nothing to do with the game itself - they’ll be written in Rust or Python or whatever.
Cybersecurity in gaming is a little more niche. The closest thing you have to it are anticheat guys; they’re usually “reformed” (or so they claim… I have my doubts 😉) cheat developers. They’ll try to hack our own game and tell us what they find, and we adjust to counter their hacking. Of course if a game does in-app payments you have to worry about wallets and such getting hacked, and if it’s something like EA where people have their own accounts you gotta handle that too.
And of course - there’s nothing that says you have to keep doing the same thing forever. You can always change what you specialize in and enter a new part of the field - or enter a new field entirely. One of our tools engineers was actually a construction worker 10 years ago, believe it or not.
leetnewb, new as of today 6/1/23. Long-time follower of the open source Lemmy project. Redditor of ~13 years and forum person for many year prior. Have had the hope that communities would eventually migrate to platforms such as this. Interests are pretty mundane: gardening, tennis, some tech and hobby programming. Usually more interested in reading than commenting.
