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Hi everyone! Just your friendly, vegan anti-natalist here and also someone who really looks forward to using something that simply can't be owned by some corporation. Pronouns are they/them .

Hello, people of Beehaw! I'm excited to explore this chill community. I love chatting about video games and I have three adorable pet rats. Nice to see you all here!

Hey, I'm Dan, I discovered Beehaw from posts on Reddit, and I am glad I did. That other place was bevoming less and less appealing. Anyway, I'm a dad who is a web developer. I love Ruby and solving problems. I'm also involved in scouting through yhe BSA, and my wife and I run a local cub scout pack.

Hi! I am new here. I already have a couple of accounts elsewhere on fedi for quite some time now, but I also wanted to jump on the "escaping reddit" bandwagon and see where it takes me. This looks like a cool place, I am looking forward to participating! I mostly used reddit for looking for players for my RPG groups and for asking linux questions, I hope I will be able to participate in such discussions and activities here as well.

Howdy y'all! I'm a law student living in Washington, DC. I'm yet another reddit refugee, although I've been on Mastodon for awhile already. I'm excited to see the Fediverse further expand and reach more people. I love talking about video and board games. I love reading and philosophy, and am also becoming an avid Plex user. Glad to be here!

Another Reddit refugee here.

I'm Valliac, mid-thirties over on the east coast of the US.

I'm generally a videogaming and pro wrestling nerd. I stream videogames on twitch (same name), DJ as a hobby, and am overall sarcastic in most of my replies.

I’m Hyperz and I come from the land of waffles, chocolate, fries and beer (Belgium). Was a reader of Reddit for about 15 years and a member for about 11 of those years. Before that I used to be very active on some niche forums until Reddit went Pac-Man on traditional forums. With the way Reddit was going the last few years, and especially now with the incoming API changes, I’ve decided I don’t want to support that anti-user platform anymore. I’m glad I found out about Lemmy (can’t believe I hadn’t heard of it before!) because not only does it look like a viable alternative to Reddit, it also brings back some of the aspects I’ve been missing from the old forum days.

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. Colorado based. Interests in History/Science/Open Source Software

Hey everyone, I'm based out of East Asia, but lived the majority of my life outside of my home country. I love technology, sports (playing, not watching), video games, reading, and music.

Also part of the reddit exodus crowd, and I'm glad to be here.

Hi everyone! Yet another Reddit refugee here from northeast Ohio in the US. Looking forward to sharing and discussing technology, science, and gaming with all the cool and nice folks around here!

Hello, I'm here to try this experience and to see what it has to offer. yes I'm coming from Reddit and I'm also on Snapzu.

Yet another reddit refugee here! Really like the vision and community here, cancelled my reddit subscription and transferred it to beehaw.

Glad to be part of this!

Hello Hello! Liam, he/him here. I'm a clown, acrobat, openbsd user and longtime resident of a queer and crafty/hackery corner of the fedi. Saw people mentioning lemmy on non-tech subreddits that I lurk and figured I'd see if the wave resulted in a space I actually wanted to interact with. After a bit of digging, I saw this server recommended, and I like the approach that seems to be being taken here. Really looking forward to seeing how this community feels!

Hey folks, NYC-based. Not a refugee of anything or anywhere. Just an ardent supporter of a decentralized internet.

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!