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!
I feel the same way you do. None of the other instances are as appealing to me as the great SDF is.
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.
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…
