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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.
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I dunno if I really qualify as a "Reddit refugee" as I wasn't particularly active there...a few dozen posts, a few hundred comments, all now deleted. But it was the current reddit mess that got me looking around for other communities and finding Lemmy & Beehaw. I've been online and in various communities since basically forever (Usenet, Puppy [the easier version of Fido to run on a first-generation PC], MajorBBS, CompuServe, The WELL, IRC, etc. etc.) but I promise to try not to play the "get off my lawn" card too often.
I had a medley of jobs for the most part in the tech space, and I've been happily retired for a few years now, because my DW has a good job with a BigCo and I prefer keeping the house clean to writing more code for other people. These days I mostly just try to get outside and hike as much as I can, but I like having at least a tiny bit of online community available.
Politically I lean pretty far to the left, having spent a chunk of my youth fairly active in anarchist circles. These days I'm more of a pragmatist who just wants people to be nice to each other.
It's possible that someone will recognize this username from elsewhere, in which case: yes, it's me, and no, I don't feel like discussing things from decades in the past.