the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the “how was your week” thread isn’t a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples’ posts aren’t getting lost.
tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don’t gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this’ll be a good way of getting to know all the people you’re now on here with
Heya from another reddit refugee:
I’m a late 20s guy (he/him) working on getting a PhD in materials science and engineering. I’m pretty optimistic about Lemmy, and Beehaw in particular.
I think that right now the thing that I’m missing most from reddit is the plethora of niche communities for very specific interests, but I’m aware that’s something that comes with time and a big enough userbase. For now we’ve got Gaming, if we get enough people we’ll probably get MMORPGs or similar. I don’t mind waiting.
Other communities I’d love to see pop up would be for things like scuba diving, specific TTRPGs like Lancer, more specific science communities (edit: looks like there’s already one for space), biking, solarpunk aesthetic stuff, Q/A communities (like r/askscience and r/askhistorians), and so on. (I actually haven’t searched for all of those yet… Maybe some already exist!)