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(c)(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.

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

Agreed. It's hands down the best instance to be on if you're a total nerd.

I was completely on the fence of even trying lemmy but the second I saw SDF in the suggestions on join-lemmy.org, I knew it was meant to be. I was only an active member for a very short while on SDF, and that was years ago, but the heart of the org always appealed to me. I think it's time to become a supporting member again.

Same, super glad to be here, just generally seems like a really great group of people doing really cool stuff

I originally signed up on lemmy.ml, but when I got mail from membership asking about interest in a lemmy instance, I knew this would me the place for me

100% agree. Thoroughly enjoying this instance. Browsing local is very soothing, and eventually I switch to All and deal with the others.