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Thank you all for your patience! (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by seahorse@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social

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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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[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Menachem@midwest.social -1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Throskie@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] linuxdaemon@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago

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.