#reintroduction

New instance, my second one ever, new #Introduction time! (Or rather, reintroduction. Adapted from my old introduction.) Hi, I'm NerdNextDoor! I'm Scottish and on the autism spectrum which was diagnosed in 2021. I'm left-wing as well and an LGBTQIA+ ally. I just moved from mastodon.social to social.bear-den.org if you're a little confused about why you're seeing this elsewhere. I originally joined Fedi on July 13th 2023 on Mastodon, this is my first time using GoToSocial as my main Fedi server other than when I set up and used the @projectanchorage@social.bear-den.org account. This will be fun! I do lots of things like music, programming (usually low-level stuff), blogging at nerdnextdoor.net, other technical stuff and I contribute to other software on the interwebs. I also run projects such as #EVi, #CoffeeBSD, Inori and plenty of other things. I might have dropped around 176 followers in the move to Bear-Den from Mastodon so if you followed me before this and you aren't following me here, would you mind re-following me? Thanks in advance! You can reach me at here at this account, on Matrix at @nerdnextdoor@social.bear-den.org:matrix.org, OFTC's IRC/Matrix bridge at "NerdNextDoor" (usually I hang out at #evi or #coffeebsd) and the Starlight Network's IRC also as "NerdNextDoor". Thanks! Please #Boost this post so more people know where I went! :D #Fediverse #Fedi #Reintroduction

mookie's #introduction / #reintroduction it's me, hi. i'm the mookie, it's me (again). i'm the father of two awesome kids. i love watching and talking about #movies. i'm a #gamer. i #run to eat. i'm a giant #starwars, #startrek, #predator, #alien and #tron nerd. i'm a born and raised #engineer. i'm a serial #fediverse instance creator (and destroyer) and have been doing this since 2018. my home is at ultramookie.com where i should be spending more time writing. will this be permanance?

#reintroduction I’m an immigrant from another instance. It was a good run, but the admin/owner had reasons to shut it down, some public, some private (I was a co-moderator) and I fully support the decision. I’m a geek with chemistry and compsci degrees. I run a half-rack in my basement, and have worked an arc of jobs from bench chemist to letter carrier for the USPS. Today I hang my hat for the infrastructure team of a local company, and spend my time on a bicycle otherwise.

"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same. Add #introductions to the post." #Minecraft #StardewValley #Terraria #InteractiveFiction, #TextAdventure #SoloRoleplaying, #SoloRPG #introduction #introductions #reintroduction #reintroductions

Dear Fedi friends, It may be time for a re-introduction: I'm Elena, an Italian creative (writer, photographer, filmmaker) living in Paris, France. You may have initially gotten to know me for my advocacy for the Fediverse (like my Fedi intro video: https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/ or my blog or my Fediverse stock photo). So, you may have been a bit confused lately, over all my critical posts about the new network W Social. Why do I keep bringing it up? I believe that W Social - and its required, companion app W Identity - are an existential threat to the Fediverse. So I'm fighting tooth and nail to oppose and resist them. Why? The European Commission has enthusiastically embraced this new hard fork of Bluesky that requires age verification. Even Ursula von der Leyen advertised the launch of W Social in between G7 meetings last week. I have MOUNTAINS of evidence of poor planning, extremely lax security, use of U.S. Big Tech platforms for something that purports to be "based in Europe, for the world." Why is it a threat for the Fediverse? The only way to make sense of the European Commission's embrace of this platform is that maybe it sees it as a trial run for MANDATORY age verification for social media across the European Union. No Fediverse app has infrastructure in place to comply. And if a mandate is introduced, it would spell the end of the open social web and internet anonymity... like Chat Control, but basically killing the Fediverse. I find it EXTREMELY disturbing to see the enthusiastic embrace of W Social by the European Commission. It took them YEARS to change their website footer and add Mastodon and Bluesky instead of X. In the span of 5 weeks, they replaced the Bluesky logo (a butterfly) with the "W" from W Social. All my posts about W Social from last week went viral. My articles have been quoted in articles in French, Dutch and German news sites (https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/) I have held back from sharing more evidence I found because I don't want to appear like a bully who promotes pile-ons. I'm a nice, sweet person, I promise! I take ZERO pleasure in writing about W Social, but I have unwittingly become an expert on them - after researching them for 5 months. So here I am. I will keep investigating them. If you don't want to hear about this topic anymore - I would understand - you can mute the hashtags #Wsocial and #DubyaSocial (that's a pretty apt way to describe them IMHO). Peace out. #introduction #reintroduction