Hi, Fediverse and especially
#envs pubnixers!
As you might have noticed, I moved my account from
@fab to
@dan. So it's time for a new
#introduction!
I'm very sceptical about the corporate web social media and I always avoided Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and things like that like the plague. But the Fediverse isn't bound to corporate interests, federates and can be self hosted. These things made it interesting. And I was curious, so I made an account on the
pleroma.envs.net instance of the
envs.net pubnix.
I wanted to join a pubnix for a very long time and did a lot of research for the right one and I think I found the right one with
#envs. My fellow pubnixers and tildizens seem to be a bunch of very nice and helpful folks, and I already made a lot of good experiences. But I had to choose the username 'dan', because 'fab' was already taken. So my shell account is now '
[email protected]' just like my email address and my webpage, Gopher Hole and Gemini Capsule can be found under the username ~dan. But I still had the
@fab Mastodon/ActivityPub account, so I decided now to move to the new account
@dan to make all my accounts with the same username on
envs.net.As I told in my previous introduction, I'm an enthusiastic computer, GNU/Linux and *BSD hobbyist, although I never worked in the IT field professionally. I like to tinker around with my little homelab and my own VPS servers running FreeBSD. I'm also interested in the
#smolnet /
#indieweb. And since Mon, 12 Jan 2026 I'm a proud member of the
envs.net pubnix/tilde, where I can make some experiences on a shared multiuser Linux system with other makers, tinkerers, computer hobbyists and professionals, and other like-minded folks which is very intriguing.
I'm especially at home in the shell and keyboard-centric environments like AwesomeWM, which I use on all of my workstations running Artix Linux (OpenRC). I always prefer simple TUI/CLI programs over bloated GUI applications. My interest in different programming languages is diverse, be it Go, bash/sh, Rust, Python or even Perl. I try to use the language which fits best to the problem. But all I know about computers, Linux, Unix and the *BSDs I've learned-by-doing or to solve a specific problem or need.
I hope to have a lot of fun in the long-run on the
envs.net pubnix/tilde, and that we're having a good time together.
That's it for my introduction for now, although I don't know if I'll post regularly on the Fediverse. You can always contact me on XMPP with my JID '
[email protected]' or via email too, if you like. So have fun!
Best wishes,
~dan
#intoduction #pubnix #tilde #envs #smolnet #indieweb