An #introduction: I'm a #javascript dev from Brisbane, Australia. I run https://bne.social for Brissie folks & friends, join us!

📹 I loove #travel #vlog / #filmmaking / editing. Check out my Youtube at https://ash.ms/yt. Send me yours!

🚵 Also interested in #sustainability, #cycling, #retrocomputing & my CD collection (what's your fav album?)

Otherwise I love this part of the world & you'll probably find a lot of photos of moments I find beautiful around here. PS: 💯 gay 🌈 🦄

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Interested in science and the natural environment. Have studied basic engineering, biology and then geology. Got a MSc and PhD in Sedimentology and an equiv MSc in pedagogy for higher education. I have worked in geophysics and computer science now mostly in environmental oceanography. I am passionate about the Ocean. I left Academia and dedicated my life to fighting industrial plastic pollution on the West Coast and islands of Scotland using circular economy. Consultant sometimes

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I'm a software developer in the AEC industry, typically working to automate engineering workflows in CAD software (revit etc.). I studied Mathematics, so naturally I love functional programming (and luckily get to use F# for most of my work!).

In my free time I enjoy walking, photography, custom keyboards, and any other hobbies my ADHD brain latches onto.

#software #math #tech #adhd

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My work is related to human rights and sometimes is a bit overwhelming so I want to disconnect for a while of everything and I think this instance will fit great for that😸

My hobbies are programing although I use it for data science and such, #painting (oil & watercolor and I want to try with #DigitalArt), reading #HistoricalFiction, I want to try some day writing #ScienceFiction oh and I like to learn new languages and practice #calligraphy.

I think that's all for now ☺️

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I'm Allison, a freelance copyeditor (and sometimes writer & artist) hoping to connect with international comrades who share my enthusiasm for speculative fiction, mountains, disability justice, and ecosocialism.

We might get along if

- you're still wearing PPE,
- you have a favorite plant (bonus points if you wear it as a tattoo),
- you like The Expanse despite its being on Amazon, and/or
- Bernie 2016 broke your heart.

Hope to meet a lot of new folks soon. Glad to be here!

P.S. I'm also going to keep an eye out for

#art
#ecosocialism
#energy
#ethics
#labor
#landback
#mountains
#novels
#organizing
#solarpunk
#walking
#wildfire
#wildflowers

Now that I'm on a new instance, I'll write a new #introduction.

I am a follower of Jesus, mutualist hobbyist programmer, and sysadmin (in that order). I'm passionate about #CooperativeTechnology, #smalltech, and liberating people all around within and without technology.

I'm interested in alternative internet protocols (#Gemini), mobile Linux, real sustainability, and various computer languages (including #Rust and #Zig).

Also hosting https://benign.town! Join us if you'd like. 🙂

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I'm Sumana Harihareswara, a woman in #NYC New York City. I have a consultancy https://changeset.nyc, Changeset Consulting and provide short-term project management services for #freesoftware #FLOSS #opensource projects. I'm writing a book on maintainership skills and have accidentally developed expertise in #Python packaging tools.

I'm married, a stand-up comedian & fanvidder, a frequent poster on #MetaFilter & #Dreamwidth, Indian-American. Just moved from mastodon.social!

Hello, mastodon! Time for #introduction, I guess. I am Lana, freelancer artist from Ukraine. I do a lot of art nouveau inspired illustrations, often draw my #OriginalCharacter and #FFXIV fanarts.
Losing social media with nice audience (ty musk) hurts a lot, especially in hard times like these, so I will gladly build a new home here, just need a little help in spreading the word!

I never did an #introduction!

Hi, I'm Max. I live in #NYC and do #journalism at PCMag where I cover #infosec, #security, and #privacy. I also write reviews of #VPN and professionally complain about #capitalism. I'm the Unit Chair of the ZDCG #union and moonlight as a #labor organizer. If you want to learn about how to unionize your workplace, plz DM me. I play #banjo badly and think about #medieval literature. I'm spending too much money on #fountainpens.

Hi, I'm Andrew. I created and run the monthly indie game anthology, Indiepocalypse.

Each month I curate games from 10 developers (1 being newly commissioned) and sell the issues to promote shorter, weirder, alternative games and to pay the devs.

I've been doing it for over 2 years!

http://indiepocalypse.com/

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Hello world hacker town!

I'm a computer and information security student with the passion for #hacking since I was a child.

I like several topics from technical to theoretical aspects of computer science.

My favourite are low level security, reverse engineering, hardware and operational security, but I'm fascinated from formal methods, quantum computing and cryptography too

I also like math and machine learning, but I haven't the time to improve my self a lot, fortunately I followed tons of courses at the university

Sometimes I play with blue team stuff, expecially to help friends to protect themselves, their networks and systems

I also spend my time with friends, working out at the gym, and sometimes reading books

So, I've heard it's good to #introduce myself as I'm #newhere.

I teach and advise researchers on #researchdatamanagement and #datasharing in the #socialsciences. I'm also interested in everything research data infrastructure related and everything to help advance an #openscience culture. Happy to answer your questions! 🤓

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Hi everyone! My name is Christian Spannagel. I'm a professor for mathematics and computer science education at Heidelberg University of Education. I am interested in many things :), especially in the inverted classroom method (#flipclass), #itstuff, #sustainability, and #openscience.

Reintroducing myself due to a typo 🙃

Hello, world! Like many recently, I've come to Mastodon by the ~other site~ reaching a juncture that allowed me to imagine alternative venues for online interaction.

My #introduction: I'm an archaeologist with a special interest in landscapes and seascapes. As a day job, I'm a marine geophysicist but I continue to collect and process terrestrial geophysics data for my own research projects. I'm hoping to find other #archaeology colleagues out there!

#introduction time 👋

- I'm a writer, programmer and researcher based in Melbourne.

- My day job involves a lot(!) of #dataviz and my main tools of the trade are #d3js, #python, #R and #GIS software. But I also play around with p5.js and SQL on occasion.

- Outside of that, I'm looking to learn more about digital librarianship and curatorship, digital humanities, early internet and the #indieweb, live art coding, generative art and cool web design.

- I was also a #music journalist for a few years and I'm a classically trained singer, so I'm always keen to hear new recs

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sup y'all - twitter addict here wanting to do an #introduction

I'm a comedian, writer, and actor, interests are #writing #comedy #funny #Twitter #stream #substack #boardgames #mountainbiking #film

also a #creator - I made my own digital series called Distance about a long distance relationship where you as the audience get to pick which side you want to watch first: www.distancetheseries.com

I'm also from #ukraine (born there, moved to US when I was seven) and live in #losangeles now.

Since I woke up, and there's new users here, #introduction

I am Joel, #Mexican, 21, studying #Mechatronics but I enjoy learning other things online instead

I like #FOSS and styling my stuff, such as #android, #linux or my #blog

I like meeting new people, my attempts at humor are terrible, my #origami posts get kinda famous, I enjoy getting into new #hobbies

Interests: #gamedev #inkscape #blogging #vim #selfhosting #raspberrypk #coding #podcasts #manga #anime #reading #citypop #daftpunk

Posting from the persona of my day job as a research scientist studying #adolescence, early life #adversity, and #cognition using intensive #longitudinal designs and #fMRI.

I'm mostly a methods and scientific #computing nut with a strong streak of scientific #critique and desire to improve scientific practice including #OpenScience and #philosophyofscience.

I think a more just society is possible. I think improving adolescent #wellbeing depends on expanding opportunities.

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Hi, my name is Dan and I use They/He pronouns.

By day I'm a Platform Security Engineer, with a focus on container & cloud security, tooling and automation.

The rest of the time, I enjoy playing and (more often) GMing #DnD 5e, #photography (generally wildlife and landscape), good #coffee, cooking and #gardening. I'd love to learn machining, blacksmithing and welding.

I'm very politically left, occasionally post about #ADHD & other #mentalhealth stuff.

Nice to meet you! #introduction

Hi Mastodon! #introduction #mastoart

Oh look, another software anarchist, how original.

I'm part of a small software consultancy co-op based in Copenhagen. I wish I didn't have to toil under capitalism, but here we are.

I'm trying out the #fediverse experience to see if I can find more of a sense of community than the very Personal Brand focused Dunking of Twitter.

So far, it's felt pretty welcoming on here: lots of people, lots of tips on how to get started. But I have yet to find My People on here. #introduction #introductions

Here's an #introduction of sorts...I'm a senior librarian at the State Library of NSW and responsible for eresources including budgets, negotiations, access and licensing.

I also look after the ezproxy server, lead on web harvesting and social media collecting. Current project revolves around collecting online content associated with the upcoming federal election.

Other than that I love and collect books, and into console gaming. I've recently moved to the Southern Highlands.

Hi, I've been around the Fediverse for some time now but never introduced myself.

I am a librarian from Cologne working on tools and projects around Linked Open Usable Data. I love the open, decentralized web and using/creating/maintaining free software. I also do some LIS teaching on IT topics.

I am tooting in English and in German but not frequently. I also toot for @lobid, @skohub and @swib.

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hi! I'm micah. I write software and electronic music.

software-wise, I specialize in graphics and digital signal processing. by day, I work in the game industry; apart from that, my current project is a set of audio plugins written in rust.

my blog: https://glowcoil.com
my code: https://github.com/glowcoil
my music: https://soundcloud.com/glowcoil

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Yo, I'm Tai. I'm an illustrator who likes to dabble in horror and fantasy genres. I'm looking forward to using this place more often.
Things I'm into are: rpg/retro style horror games, vocaloid, indie games, args, animations, gardening, cooking and also playing piano tho I'm not that great at it lol :0

#introduction Evening! I’m a UNIX specialist in acadaemia working with particularly large computers in the fair city of Edinburgh. I sail boats, ride motorbikes, and read far too much fantasy and science fiction. I’m not very interesting.

Hi I’m msd!
(he/they)
I make music🎸🎮🎤, take photos📸, + run a cat rescue/recording studio with my partner Della in southern New England.

I’m also learning 3D art and making weird little adventures of a bird wizard in Blender - which is mostly what I post here!

That said, I can be hired for all sorts of things!
Need composition or gameboy/guitar/vocals for your project? I got you!
msd.myportfolio.com

#introduction #mastoart #3Dart #blender3D #musicians #introductions

Here's an #introduction.

I'm an ecologist currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden. At work I try to find out how plant communities are affected by changes in climate, what that means for ecosystem functioning under climate change, and whether we can already see signs of changes in habitats that have been monitored for a long time. #Openscience is important to me.

I love cycling and the outdoors🚴, all the species🌱🦇🦢🐌🦋, and playing nintendo

Looking forward to meeting new people!

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Hi all, re-introducing myself for all the new members (welcome!):

I am a:
-- Former contingent philosophy lecturer
-- Former sysadmin and helpdesk technician
-- Musician/composer working with computers, guitars, electronics, and voice
-- Cast iron cook stove enthusiast

I love:
-- TTRPGs, especially open, hackable, and lightweight systems
-- Thinking/Talking about Phenomenology, Hegel, Time, Merleau-Ponty, Peirce, Difference, Husserl, Space, Motricity, Semiosis
-- Thinking at the intersection of Politics+Aesthetics+Ethics+Being

I am learning:
-- SuperCollider
-- Org-Mode
-- Continuously, how to be bewildered, confused, and to dwell in that bewilderment and confusion, and to allow myself not to know, and to push back against any desire to have already arrived at knowing
-- Tá mé ag foghlaim na Gaeilge

I work with:

-- Pure Data
-- *Nix systems
-- Cassette Tapes
-- Hardware synthesizers
-- Lots of FOSS software

I was born and raised in rural New England (the most beautiful place in the world) (I'm of course kidding) (am I?)

I tend to be more of a lurker, but I am here reading, listening, watching, thinking, and working on being more confident in contributing in my own way.

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i'm derek, he/him. currently in central california and have lived in new york for a bit too

originally went through #music school up through #dma (lol i'd be surprised if that hashtag actually worked and referred to doctor of musical arts) studying #percussion with aspirations of being a "new music" percussionist but didn't stick the landing in music academia. i got a #math degree somewhere along the way and had been getting heavily into #computermusic and #creativecoding sorts of things working at a media lab during the dma so when covid, hit decided to go back to (online) grad school studying computer science. things i'm really into studying cs-wise are #ai/#ml things (more leaning on the ai-side but we'll see) and "soft-cs"/"extra-cs" sorta intersectional things like #hci and #education and starting to read about #computationalcreativity and other things. not sure where my cs studies will go yet but it'd be nice be able to research ai things more. also, i'm really into #foss / #linux sorta things.

other things i'm into are anime and manga (mostly iyashikei, mecha, and ikuhara things), video games, riichi mahjong, animals (mostly cats, sea otters and puffins), stars are cool, and also vast desolate expanses.

think my website better sums up things: https://derekxkwan.com/

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Hello everyone! I'm Greg, and I'm a writer looking for a nice home and community. I’m mostly a #scifi writer (and reader/watcher) and have been working on flash fiction and poetry as of late, on my way to working up towards longer fiction.

Here’s a small sample of some recent #haiku, ranging from #fanfiction for #Cyberpunk2077 to random #photography moments. (At which I’m trying to get better, and marry it to my love of writing.)

#MastoArt #writer #poet #amwriting #poetry

Been on here a while but I guess I’ll do a fresh #introduction :

Hi, I’m Luna!
By day, I’m a graphics programmer in the UK games industry. By night, I’m a demoscener making procedural artworks with code. I’m trans, I love cats (though I don’t have any of my own), and I will always over-commit to the bit - including (but not limited to) buying fonts specifically for making typographically-accurate memes, and building entire websites for a quick gag.

Oh, and here’s some of my art:

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Hi all, Roel he/him.

An artist and designer with an interest in computer networks, materiality of the internet, digital community infrastructure, DIY/DIWO approaches, FOSS culture.

You might know my work from the LowTech Mag's solar powered server project https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com

Currently pursuing a #PhD in Interaction and Participatory #Design at Malmö University. As part of that research I work together with actors in the cultural sector to co-design alternative social media infrastructures with/for them. These are mostly based on fediverse applications, so I am also interested in aspects of #federation #governance #contentmoderation and more generally how to transition to and improve alternatives together etc. This space is far from perfect and in some cases insufficient but we need to start somewhere??

I'm a founding member of https://varia.zone, and also part of https://lurk.org. With LURK we've been running a fediverse instance called post.lurk.org since 2018, for which I am happy to be one of the co-admins! As part of that I boost #introductions, calls and questions..

This is introduction is really long because post.lurk.org has a character limit of 1337

#introduction, because I've never made one...

Hi, I'm Lyrilith! A 30-something goth girl from Hamburg, Germany.
💜 🦇 💜

What I tend to post and boost:

- drawings
- music I listen to (post-punk, dark wave, industrial EBM, metal, anime,...)
- memes
- cool tech stuff (I sometimes don't quite understand)
- FOSS and design
- sometimes German things (Ja, Deutsch kommt schon mal vor, aber ich tendiere irgendwie immer zu Englisch wenn ich im Netz bin.)

Hello Mastodon. I draw stuff. This is my character Miette. I like to draw seasonal art of her. #mastoart #creativetoots #fediart #introduction

Hello gamers.
I'm a 3D artist from Canada. I like to make a variety of stuff, like character renders & animations.

Would love to meet some other artists on here.
#introduction #introductions

because I have so many new users coming #mastodonTips #mastodon

discovery/discoverability

1) in addition to a bio, consider also making an #introduction / #introduction post also check this tag to find people who are also new and their interests

2) https://communitywiki.org/trunk is a wonderful place to find people who are active. it is human moderated. if you decide to stick around and have the bandwidth to do so, consider joining a list to welcome others as well.

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#introduction Hi y'all, I'm an education PhD student who is interested in critical explorations of #edtech. I am critical of how teachers/professors use edtech and its effects on learning environments. Looking forward to really leaning into this community and program.

I guess I can do a #reintroduction #introduction #introductions

Hi! I'm Andrew! I run Retro.social.

I'm an SRE manager at a gaming company. I own a coffee shop, I run a makerspace, and I make toys.

I also do a #podcast called Expedition Sasquatch that releases infrequently and is super specifically funny. Like, I can't listen to a single episode without falling out of my chair laughing, but maybe you don't know any old southern men who want to hunt bigfoot professionally.

I run a peertube instance, which mostly gets music from my record label, and tv shows from the 50s.

If you know me from outside of the fediverse it's probably from my blog (http://ajroach42.com) which inexplicably gets featured on boingboing or the front page of that orange nightmare every once in a while. I did podcasts on floppydisks and a piece about how computing has gone wonky since circa 2012 or so.

I do media digitization and preservation, archiving 16mm film of TV shows and movies, and I write about that sometimes.

I have a tendency to do Big Long Posts. I won't apologize for that, Your instance should crush it down under a read more. If it doesn't, I will apologize for that.

I'm a #DIYMedia advocate. I strongly believe that we have to escape from our corporate media overlords, and fight back against them if we want to be free.

Uhhh... What else? I have Strong Opinions about things.

I post about #PD #publicDomain and especially #PDMusicList recently.

Here are some photos of things I've worked on recently.