Hey Fediverse! After leaving Instagram behind, I'm making this my new home. Time for a proper #introduction. #neuhier

I'm Fabian, a graphic designer and artist from Leipzig, Germany. I'll be sharing projects like books, prints, a board game system I'm tinkering with, and some journal entries from my archive.

I also speak German and a bit of Korean, but will mostly post in English.

Glad to be here! :)

#graphicdesign #leipzig #design #photography #bookdesign #boardgames

New instance so I guess new intro? I haven't done one in years, so here goes...

Dad x2 (teen and a toddler 😳) Happy and devoted husband to @jillianmarisa. Liberal. Enthusiastic Missouri Master Naturalist and somehow President of the KC chapter. 🤷‍♂️

Tootin' since 2022. Mastodon made me a Linux-using, #fedifirst, FOSS evangelist.

I dig: Conservation + naturalist topics, photography (mostly birds these days) postcards 'n travel. Leader @ a Conglom-O Corp thankfully doing tech that isn't evil.

Washed up travel influencer. I still help run @AirlineReporter & host a Mastodon community of travel/airplane geeks @ AvGeek.Social.

Growing a family, chickens and multiple gardens while renovating my childhood home: Grandpa's 1960 house here in beautiful Lee’s Summit, MO, US (KC-metro)

#Missouri #KC-ish #Travel #Postcards #DadOps #CorpLife #Gardening #Zone6B #introduction

After changing instances, re-introduction:

I'm a family physician who cares about primary care, prevention, and public health. My day job in academia juggles medical education, clinical work, and scholarly pursuits in the U.S..

In my free time, I like reading, dancing, traveling, and K-dramas. I believe in the power of community and diversity is a strength. Looking for joy in simplicity and going outside. Will consume BTS content.

#introduction #healthcare #PublicHealth #MedEd #BTSARMY

Dear Fedi friends,

It may be time for a re-introduction: I'm Elena, an Italian creative (writer, photographer, filmmaker) living in Paris, France.

You may have initially gotten to know me for my advocacy for the Fediverse (like my Fedi intro video: blog.elenarossini.com/fedivers… or my blog or my Fediverse stock photo). So, you may have been a bit confused lately, over all my critical posts about the new network W Social. Why do I keep bringing it up?

I believe that W Social - and its required, companion app W Identity - are an existential threat to the Fediverse. So I'm fighting tooth and nail to oppose and resist them.

Why? The European Commission has enthusiastically embraced this new hard fork of Bluesky that requires age verification. Even Ursula von der Leyen advertised the launch of W Social in between G7 meetings last week.

I have MOUNTAINS of evidence of poor planning, extremely lax security, use of U.S. Big Tech platforms for something that purports to be "based in Europe, for the world."

Why is it a threat for the Fediverse? The only way to make sense of the European Commission's embrace of this platform is that maybe it sees it as a trial run for MANDATORY age verification for social media across the European Union.

No Fediverse app has infrastructure in place to comply. And if a mandate is introduced, it would spell the end of the open social web and internet anonymity... like Chat Control, but basically killing the Fediverse.

I find it EXTREMELY disturbing to see the enthusiastic embrace of W Social by the European Commission. It took them YEARS to change their website footer and add Mastodon and Bluesky instead of X. In the span of 5 weeks, they replaced the Bluesky logo (a butterfly) with the "W" from W Social.

All my posts about W Social from last week went viral. My articles have been quoted in articles in French, Dutch and German news sites (blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-so…).

I have held back from sharing more evidence I found because I don't want to appear like a bully who promotes pile-ons. I'm a nice, sweet person, I promise! I take ZERO pleasure in writing about W Social, but I have unwittingly become an expert on them - after researching them for 5 months. So here I am.

I will keep investigating them. If you don't want to hear about this topic anymore - I would understand - you can mute the hashtags #Wsocial and #DubyaSocial (that's a pretty apt way to describe them IMHO).

Peace out.

#introduction #reintroduction

Hey I'm Carroll (she/her), a newly out trans girl just looking for community!

I'm early 40s, live in the UK (), and enjoying tinkering with older computers

#Introduction #Trans #ADHD

New instance, new #introduction time.

Formerly intrepidhero@vmst.io.

I post a lot of #hiking, #mountaineering, and #caturday pictures, #cooking, #gardening, #diy projects, esoteric #programming and grumpy #tech and #design thoughts, and #poetry, both my own and attributed. I like #scifi and #fantasy and when I post about politics it will get a CW.

Posts are meant to be ephemeral. Anything I want to keep up long term will end up on my website.

☮️

#Introduction (June 2026 edition)

Hi, I’m Kate. I’m 43 years old, trans, and live in the south-west of England with my wife @clareburgess. I’m best known for my National Grid: Live site at grid.iamkate.com.

I’m a director at itseeze.com, where I created the Lightning platform that’s been used to build thousands of sites for organisations across the UK and Ireland since 2007.

I’m a member of the board of trustees for proud2be.org.uk, a queer-led charity supporting LGBT+ people in Devon.

#Research post :)
Please share with me, what makes you hopeful, so we can spread your personal #glimmer as #glimmersToGo all over the world.

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#design #flowers #animation #saarland #mastoart #art #introduction #nature #deutschland #germany

Hello, world!

We're Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.

This account will share updates on our organizing effort, relevant news/info, and maybe the occasional meme. We promise to keep posting volume reasonably chill.

More info here:

wikiworkersunited.org

And we welcome the community to express support here:

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_W…

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Hello everyone, I'm Verai from #Germany.

This is my start as someone trying this social media thing as I've been mostly lurking on the internet until now.

I'm a Tech enthusiast running Linux and favor FOSS projects.

I enjoy many forms of entertainment media like youtube, anime, web novels occasional gaming and other.

Languages: English, German, Russian(only verbal for now)

I'll try to post in at least a weekly fashion. I'm hoping for new and fun experiences.

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Hi, I’m Magenta.

I’m new to the fediverse, still exploring.

I am #vegetarian and really liked Harmony Chinese vegetarian restaurant that is no longer here. Are there other vegetarian restaurants in #Philadelphia that you can recommend?

I enjoy #FiberArts #Pottery #Photography and love #Animals

Hi Everyone,
(Yeah, you too. This is for you, if you want. Or not, if you're busy.)

This is my #introduction thingy.
I moved to LA because I was trying to be a #comedy writer and/or comedian. I did a lot of #improv and #sketch, and some #standup. It didn't really work out as a career, but I wouldn't trade the experiences for anything. I really got a chance to laugh a lot and make people laugh, and I loved all of it.

I've worked in a few fields and am now a #Trainer, #Speaker, and #CareerCoach. I think I enjoy being a career coach the most because I'm helping people from underserved communities find the right path for them, or just validating that it's OK if you don't know where you want to be, and jobs are just one aspect of life anyway.

I love to #travel and have gone to about 15 - 20 countries. But with COVID and my concerns about climate change, I'm rethinking that.

You'll probably see my posts be edited as I try to get the wording right, or if I'm worried I've upset someone.

I like to retoot silly, kind toots that speak to the #absurdity of life or are just good #puns. I also like #cuteanimals a lot.

I'm married to an amazing woman. We recently put down our 15-year-old schnauzer Patches and I still miss him. And I'm #liberal af.

I guess that's enough to go on, right? If you made it this far, thank you for reading!

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Hello everybody,
I'm a bit lost here, coming from "traditional" social platforms. I have no idea how this works and to top it all I'm also too shy to enter people's conversations.

So let me introduce myself: I'm a Romanian artist, I paint in oil and acrylic. I am also a voracious reader, always on the lookout for new books. I enjoy most of all historical ones - fiction and non fiction, classic literature is my comfort food, yet I'll not refuse a good mystery or thriller.

hi, i'm Nicoleta - never used a microblogging platform so this is all new to me :)

i love:
* computers - but the hacker culture / free software / sustainable tech parts, not the hypergrowth dark pattern stuff that plagues our existence nowadays
* writing, which i should do more of, over at nicoleta.bearblog.dev
* art & creative expression
* music, esp. electronic
* rhythm games
* dancing, i dance lindy hop!

i'm looking for a community of like-minded people, who feel the same about tech, which is why i joined here :)

if you're local (from Bucharest/Romania), let's get connected, and form a local group for FOSS enthusiasts/hackers/tinkerers!

see you in the cyberspace :)

#introduction #foss #romania #bucharest #linux

Hi everyone! I'm new here, so here's an #introduction

I've been a ballet dancer since I was 3, and outside of the ballet studio I really love cooking good food, traveling, and spending time in nature.

I'm likely AuDHD, my favorite video game is stardew valley, and I have strongly held opinions about wine.

#NewHere here at CoSocial, but not to Mastodon and figured I’m due for an #introduction.

I mostly lurk and boost things I find interesting but not a huge poster. I’ll try to be a bit more active but no promises 😄.

Into tech, random problem-solving, and going down the occasional rabbit hole (soooo much time spent/wasted on new wifi gear and smart home most recently). I work in biotech, but mostly here to unwind and see what other people are up to.

Well, new instance so a new #introduction is in order.

Hi, I’m Daniel. I grew up in London (England), and a series of fortunate circumstances brought me to Montreal. My day job is in software engineering (mainly DevOps these days).

My profile has more information about the kind of content I tend to post, but certainly I’ve felt at home on Mastodon since I joined back in 2017, and I’m happy to be here on CoSocial!