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Hey everyone joining from the beautiful city of Detroit, Michigan

Michigander, cloud IT type, and general geek of all trades. Figured I'd try this out and see what cool geeky conversation I could find here.

Hello all! Reddit user of ten years. Struggled during the blackout. Turns out I might have a problem, a Reddit addiction. Withdrawals weren’t too bad… who am I kidding, they were awful! Thrilled to find my fix here. Excited to join a developing platform to replace Reddit. I will confess I was mostly a lurker on Reddit. Tend to not engage much in social media, but I am going to try and be different on this platform. I would like to see this platform thrive and recognize engagement will be key. By the way, I downloaded the iOS lemmy app, Mlem through test flight. Like it so far, but can tell it is a work in progress. Excited to participate in its evolution.

A bit about myself, work in healthcare, just bought a new house. Have far too many pets in the house (all rescues). A progressive living in the more conservative parts of the Midwest. Isolating and scary at times, but will always hold true to my values.

I have deleted my Reddit account. RIP Reddit, welcome Lemmy!

Michigan guy here. Been a programmer all my life, but I'm dabbling in photography too these days.

I also create games for fun, so there's officially a crowd of us now.

Hi new here from Saginaw, Michigan

Hey everyone, Reddit refugee here; Greetings from Louisville, Ky!

I'm a 35 yo software dev currently working in the Kubernetes space, I'm a huge gaming nerd that also loves the great outdoors, whether it's skateboarding at the local mini ramp, or fishing and hiking in the local wilderness I generally like it all, glad to be here guys!

Hi yall! I'm a Chicago resident but have lived all over the midwest (and Louisville, but that's south-lite basically). I like reading all things History and poli-sci related though I've been on a personal finance kick lately. I love the idea of a regionally focused message board and hopefully we can get some good discussions goin!

Sup, Itzz Me. I'm a highschooler living in Indiana, sadly I don't connect too much with Midwest culture 😔. I have many changing interests; My recurring interests are programming, music making, and some other stuff I probably forgot. Whatever I like, I'm not really good at it. Similar to many others, I'm coming from R*ddit, although I'll probably use it in some capacity until they eviscerate the 3rd party apps.

Yes i too am from reddit 😂, currently in southern IN, i like houseplants, memes and ortdoors/hiking

Hoping lemmy can fill my reddit urges lmao

Southern Indiana, Hoosier native gamer and traveller.

Reddit abandoner

New reddit refugee here

Mid-Michigan born and raised, but the western UP made me the man I am today.

Glad to find a place to experience the fediverse!

Yet another Reddit refugee saying thank you and hello from Kansas City

Hi all!

I’m in the Chicagoland area - deleted all social media besides Reddit, but Reddit’s platform continues to decline and I am exhausted with not being able to have any form of discussion that goes against any opinions of the “mods” and the big business/far right bots.

I would love to connect with likeminded people in my area, and be able to really connect to enact positive change and maintain our sanity. I think the world is in a very dark place, I hope we can be the light.

Very new to this platform - would absolutely love to connect with anyone who also has tip and trips to get the most of of lemmy! :)

Outside of being a passionate leftists, I am proud ADHDer and cat mom. I work two jobs to maintain independence and take care of the fur babies, but I am slowly trying to be more social and outgoing after everything the pandemic threw my way.

Chicago, Linux, Cubs, Bears. Heyooo

Lifelong resident of Chicago. I like cats.

Geezer Iowan here, getting the feet moist in anticipation of reddit (see account there of same name) becoming unusable/unpalatable for me. Too many interests/hobbies to list, but outside of work culture, the lion's share of my real life socializing is via local wind bands and orchestras; I'm a french horn player, and horn sections tend to develop into their own little social clubs.

Hi all! Chicagoland checking in! Originally from rural central IL, moved to Atlanta and spent 12 years in the south, then came home to Chicago in 2016. Happy to be home and glad to find this community!

Hello everyone! I'm currently living in Madison, WI, but I grew up in South Dakota. Definitely a midwesterner at heart. Currently living with my 4 ferrets, and getting used to the fediverse. 😊

Hello! I do IT for the government. Currently in STL (not technically midwest, depending on who you ask) but I grew up in Michigan. I came here due to the news that Reddit will be soon charging 3rd party apps exorbitant and unsustainable (which is probably their goal) prices. Also on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@Arindrew

Life long Mid-Michigan native here. Looking forward to finding and interacting with new hobby communities.

Kansas City resident here. I work in publishing and am a tech enthusiast, tinkering with Linux a lot. Not a Reddit refugee, exactly, but a Reddit lurker who decided to join the community here for the discussions I won't be able to find over there anymore.

Long-time fedi user here. I only ever used reddit for reference purposes since search engines are thoroughly broken, and I am hoping to build myself a feed here that can do some of that same research shortcutting. I don't know how much I'll post, but I'm here!

This is my second try at Lemmy...I got deleted in the whoops a few weeks ago. So far, so good

Hello! I've been using Lemmy for about 2 months now (since the reddit disaster).

I've been trying to find an instance that would be a good fit for me and I'm in Ohio and I just thought this would be the best fit!

Ohio gozaimasu! Fellow Ohioan here. I'm a software developer, so I'm really into tech, videogames, and anime. Along with tea and inline skating. I was never too active on Reddit, but Lemmy solves most of the issues I had with it, so it makes sense to join amidst the hopefully indefinite blackout to help the movement succeed.

Hello! I'm a hard from Chicagoland that enjoys movies, cooking, and playing with computers. I especially enjoy MST3K movies and all things weird.

Reddit (and formerly Digg) refugee from Northeast Indiana.

I am a leftist and an atheist. My hobbies include tech, pc gaming, rock/electronic music (consuming), programming, and recently collecting oldschool smartwatches. I also love cats.

Lemmy.world was having some technical issues, so I decided to make the move to midwest.social. I'm really liking it here so far. What I like most about Lemmy is actually being able to have conversations, rather than having my comments get buried in thousands of other comments.

Hi! I grew up in Milwaukee and am studying at UW-Madison. Really happy to be here in the fediverse!

Hello 👋🏻

I am a fediverse noob from Missouri. Just started learning about Mastodon and Lemmy when Conman Musk took over Twitter.

I was a Reddit lurker for years. I like seeing the convos here but I’ve never really understood social media. My brain keeps telling me that no one will be interested in my ramblings, which sounds more depressive than it is 😅

Was the site down this morning? I had a bunch of 502 errors.

Hello all, frequenter of the r/cleveland boards. Former dig migrator leaving reddit. It was slow at both at first. What works takes time and looking forward to helping build a new awesome repository of knowledge here!

Hi, checking in from Grand Rapids, MI.

Nothing much to say but glad to be here. Been fun learning more about Fediverse.

From Madison, WI. Avid fan of the Packers, Spotted Cow, and Privacy Advocacy. Loving the whole fediverse and not looking back.

VoIP / UCaaS engineer from Wisconsin