kepic's Lair

Hi, I'm kepic! In the world outside Internet (yes, it still exists) I respond to the name Kim Sudenlehto. I also have other nicks, mostly older ones, that you might find me with: wolfsgrove, kim.sudenlehto, kimsudenlehto, kim.hokkanen, khokkanen, kihokkan, valgreon, valeri.greon. I might have even more that I have forgotten.

I spend the majority of my time on my computer, except when I'm playing with my kid. I try to study things, to write things, to play things, to understand things, and to love things. Not necessarily in that order.

I'm married, have one kid that I see regularly from a previous relationship, and have many awesome friends. I was born in Finland in 1984-06-06, on the fortieth anniversary of Battle of Normandy, more specifically the Normandy Landings. Lappeenranta was home until I moved to Tampere in the summer of 2014. A few days after my move I turned 30.

I'm leftist (modern communist/socialist), woke, and green. I use he/him-pronouns, but don't mind being called they/them. I'm pansexual, and occasionally active in local LGBT communities. Apatheist by nature, I can still occasionally be found venerating the great and confusing Eris, our Lady Discord. During such chaotic moments I am Supreme Pope Discombobulus.

You are welcome to ask about positions in my PARATHEO-ANAMETAMYSTIKHOOD OF ERIS ESOTERIC (POEE) cabal. I am the POEE CHAPLIN for the LEGION OF DYNAMIC DISCORD for the cabal and have decided to ignore most religious tenets. The five-digit numbering system that requires the minimum five numbers (from 00001-99999) is something I use almost religiously, though. Oh, and Chaos is the supreme existence from which everything else emerges.

I'm also quite active on social media:

These are what I aim to use the most:
- @[email protected]
  Misskey is an excellent federated social media platform, a worthy replacement for both Facebook and Twitter.
- @[email protected]
  Friendica is also a federated social media platform. The main attraction with this is it's compatibility with everything else on Fediverse + Twitter.
- @[email protected]
  WriteFreely is a federated blog platform. Fairly simple, allowing the blogger to focus on the basics. Supports Markdown and Web Monetization.
Lemmy and Reddit:
- @[email protected]
  Lemmy is a federated Reddit alternative. Nice place, but the community is pretty small compared to Reddit, which isn't a surprise. Hoping to see this grow.
- wolfsgrove on Reddit
These are nice federated platforms that I exist on mostly just in case:
- @[email protected]
  Mastodon is the first Twitter-like federated platform I signed up on. In my opinion it hasn't aged well.
- @[email protected]
  Pleroma is sort of redundant kind-of hybrid of other platforms. I have no idea why it even exists. Maybe I should find out.
- @[email protected]
  This was actually my initial Misskey account, but there was a surprise in the TOS: they're not supposed to allow registrations from EU or Great Britain due to GDPRS. Domestic to Japan. I found this out from machine-translating the Japanese Terms of Service. Very nice community, though, and a great opportunity learn more Japanese.
- @[email protected]
  The one that started it all (for me, at least). It's currently also the crappiest Facebook-alternative I've come across, and I'm not even kidding. Of course I haven't actually gone looking for Facebook-only alternatives, so... diaspora* was (and is) unnecessarily complicated for what it aims to do, and has aged horribly. It hardly federates (talks to other Fediverse platforms), and servers/instances are surprisingly short-lived. It still exists, though, so maybe there is something I'm missing.
- @[email protected]
  GNU social is GNU Network Services' version of a federated platform. Unlike many of the others on this list, it doesn't run on ActivityPub. Instead, it implements OStatus, which basically does the same thing. I think the only other system truly implementing OStatus on this list is Friendica. Still, GNU social federates pretty well to other ones on this list.
- @[email protected]
  This is an Instagram alternative. As I don't generally take or publish images, I don't know if I'll actually ever use this.
- @[email protected]
  Mobilizon is for groups to organize events. It's a distinct step away from the more common federated platforms, as it can't really be called a social media the same way Facebook or Twitter are social medias. I signed up for an account as I occasionally organize events, and not all people I want to come to them want to use Facebook.
I'm trying to stop using these, but as most of my friends, organizations, events, and groups are there, I'll probably visit once in a while:
- Kim Sudenlehto on Facebook
- Kim Sudenlehto on Twitter

Other fun things:

Archive of Our Own
I write fanfiction and even publish some of it occasionally. Most of it can be found on AO3. What isn't there isn't really all that important.

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