Seriously, I’ve been looking around for a Lemmy instance that I felt particularly drawn to/that shared common interests and sdf.org literally fits that bill. I’ll probably be lurking more than posting, but I really like this place. Thanks for approving my request!

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    It’s not just the technical interest community on the lemmy instance, SDF as an entity has gravitas that I appreciate.

    It’s backed by a 30 year old 501©(7) nonprofit established from an even older entity, instead of “someone who spun a VM the other week.”

    They’ve handled the abuse of hosting public-facing UNIX systems for decades, so this isn’t a crew who will freak out when they get a look at the Internet’s gaping hate hole.

    This is a community with roots in the BBS era, and the Usenet era, and which maintain their connection to the culture of the ARPANET era via the historical systems (Ya’ll played with the TOPS-20 box?). These are people who know that, as platforms go, ‘All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.’ and that’s the perspective I deeply desire in my platforms these days.

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      When I first signed up here, I had no clue what “SDF” was. The admins were requesting people go to smaller instances because lemmy.ml was getting hammered, so I chose one completely at random. You’ve articulated really well why I’m confident I made a good choice with this one :)

      And now I’ve got an SDF account and I’m starting to poke around the BBOARD…

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    I was completely on the fence of even trying lemmy but the second I saw SDF in the suggestions on join-lemmy.org, I knew it was meant to be. I was only an active member for a very short while on SDF, and that was years ago, but the heart of the org always appealed to me. I think it’s time to become a supporting member again.

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    I originally signed up on lemmy.ml, but when I got mail from membership asking about interest in a lemmy instance, I knew this would me the place for me

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    Same, super glad to be here, just generally seems like a really great group of people doing really cool stuff

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    100% agree. Thoroughly enjoying this instance. Browsing local is very soothing, and eventually I switch to All and deal with the others.

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      I feel the same way. Since I joined this instance, I very rarely leave the Local channel - I haven’t felt a need nor a desire to.