Back when I started this site around 2020 it was pretty much just me here. Most of the time the new user applications were from ultra lazy spammers peddling penis pills. I realized that all of you have been writing introductions but you don’t know much about me so here is somewhat of an introduction.
I’m just a regular guy in the Cleveland, Ohio area who works in tech. I have 3 cats. My hobbies are tech stuff, shooting/guns, gardening, lifting, and to a smaller degree talking about leftist politics. I run this instance as well as I can on my own. Sometimes the site will go down or be slow but you can rest assured that I’m most likely aware of it when that happens. I monitor this site pretty closely.
It definitely feels weird (in a good but anxiety inducing way) to see so many people using the server I set up. Before the influx it didn’t matter if the site was down for an hour or two while I worked out a deployment issue but that’s not the case anymore. I would like to bring more sys admins on board eventually so if you’re interested feel free to reach out.
Glad you’re all here!
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I am a Linux sysadmin (Redhat and fedora mostly) at a local university for over 20 years. I would be happy to help in any sysadmin tasks.
I thought about setting up my own Lemmy instance. I’ve already set up my own matrix server and mastodon (gotosocial) server for only me, and I thought I’d give someone else’s lemmy instance a shot instead of building my own this time.
Happy to be here. Glad there’s a midwest specific instance.
thank you for setting this up. Also, first fediverse post!
Im gonna miss reddit, but i really miss the (relative) locality of the old BBS days, and later, regional blog networks.
The internet feels less like a utility lately and i didnt realize how much i missed that
Thank you for creating this place for us. This is my first dive into the fediverse, honestly I’m still only kinda sure what I’m doing and how many of this works.
As someone who migrated to reddit from digg during the V4 disaster, and then spent entirely to much time on reddit, I’m excited at the prospect of being somewhere so decentralized that stupid corporate games can’t ruin everything.
Thanks for running this instance. It makes the switch to Lemmy much easier with all the local communities. I already feel more at hone here than I have for a while on reddit.
99.9999% uptime is for overrated. We can put on some bug spray and step outside (or a coat for the glorious time of the year mosquitoes don’t try to carry me away) if the server goes down.
Maybe we can have a scheduled downtime every day for all of us to go outside at the same time.😅
Yeah but sometimes you just came inside and want to browse 😉 definitely understand where he’s coming from but it’d be nice to not have to switch to another account all the time
