hey there!

Yo! Been a godawful long time since I've used a forum to share art. It'll be cool to have that kind of outlet again. (:

Some of you might know me from neonUFO's twitch streams (nati_bati_yi) though I'm very much a shy lurker. I'm a young queer adult from Scotland just out here trying to find my place in the world. My hobbies include playing video games, biking and working with my hands, and my other interests include cats, dinosaurs, marine creatures and sampling new foods. I'm a little spicy in the braincase area and my current fixation is on the Ryu Ga Gotoku series.

Not really an anything expat yet because I never used Reddit or Twitter, but Tumblr has been deteriorating very slowly for years now and I'm weighing up my options lmoa. Forums and the fediverse are probably our best options at the moment but the fediverse is new and scary to me haha

I probably won't be able to post much for a while cause I'm on holiday at the moment, but I'll try to fill a topic with my backlogs once I'm home!

Thanks to the admins for putting this place out there, very glad to be around. c:

hi and welcome, we are so glad to have you!

what is fediverse? i see its connected to mastodon somehow, but even though i tried mast out, i didn't really... get how to use it. forums def tend to be my preferred internet hangouts, and i'm glad to see people joining here!

Hey there, welcome!

I think Fediverse also has this instagram alternative called Pixelfed, I think one of my instagram mutuals went there. But yeah, the servers on there and Mastodon make it a bit daunting. Too much to figure out/think about at the entry point, so to speak. I prefer forums.

hey and welcome! so exciting to see all the people joining to forum

Totel wrote:

what is fediverse? i see its connected to mastodon somehow, but even though i tried mast out, i didn't really... get how to use it. forums def tend to be my preferred internet hangouts, and i'm glad to see people joining here!

Mastodon is part of the fediverse, yeah. Basically from what I understand of it, the fediverse is like a decentralised kinda web hub made up of smaller sites without any kind of big corp influence? I've had a friend shilling it to me for a while, but it's a lot to wrap my head around as someone who didn't ever get into reddit & the like. Forums definitely are way easier to understand haha