main

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!

Chicago, Linux, Cubs, Bears. Heyooo

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!

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. 😊

Minnesota man who helped start a robotics team in 2009, love programming, snowboarding, hitting the lake, and my kids. Happy early 4th of July for at least the good parts of our often fraught countrym

Michigan man. Almost a decade in Tech. Checking this out after the Reddit event like many others. Happy to be here.

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

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.

New St Paul, MN resident, Chicago born, raised in the greater Chicago Land suburbs, and Reddit refuge.

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 😅

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

Lansing MI resident here! Dad, husband, fisherman, 3d printer dude, and drone pilot. Happy to be here :)

Currently living in Minneapolis, been here for....8 years after moving from WV. Making the jump since the other link aggregation site has starting warning and potentially banning people for upvoting comments about Lugi. Probably just going to lurk.

Hello! Akron, OH resident here. Born in IL, lived in WI, raised in IA, live in OH currently. Lovely to be here.

I have a question about Rule 1. Does this rule apply to posts within the midwest.social or does it prevent browsing and subscribing to NSFW content on other servers?

Howdy y'all. Central Illinoisan, reddfugee, & night shift worker. They/she.

Currently glutting on various cyberpunk media in anticipation of DMing a tabletop rpg for a group of friends that I met at the local kink dungeon. Last night I watched a Japanese cyberpunk musical from 1982 called Burst City, which was beautifully chaotic, & then started rereading Neuromancer on audiobook (just finished rereading Altered Carbon.)

I'd give up a kidney for a sequel to the Return of the Obra Dinn. Just putting that energy into the universe.

Hey everybody! Twin cities reddit/twitter expat. I’m a goofy laid-back leftist who likes freedom of information and social settings not run on selling products. I like gaming on Switch, PlayStation and Mac (I know. It sucks.), drinking fancy espresso drinks I made, and listening to hard rock + nu metal. Talk to me about homelab stuff and capitalism-free computing!

Greetings from NW Ohio. Moved to mastodon a while back and have enjoyed that, so looking forward to the fediverse's take on reddit. So far so good!

Apollo refugee, SE Wisconsin. Musician (woodwinds), tech enthusiast, figuring out the fediverse.

EDIT: I forgot to add. Currently vacationing with the family in South Dakota. I miss my flat, grid cities!

Hey there from Indy. Yet another former Reddit user looking for a new place to waste time. I'm excited/hopeful about joining a community of Midwest leftists! Even if it is just a small enclave inside former KKK country.

Hi, I just joined. Looking for something to scratch that specific Reddit itch, where I mostly just post about bicycles and browse a couple of the decent other subs. I bike and unicycle and live in NE Ohio

Hey all. Another Reddit refugee from SE Michigan. Looking forward to discovering how this works.

Kendall County IL, old, cars, motorcycles, Microsoft "stuff." I am willing to help with whatever, if you're in the area and need a hand, let me know.

Michigander through and through. Will be hanging out in the Detroit sub.

Reddit-refugee here. I'm originally from MN. Looking forward to taking part here.

My primary hobby is books/reading as well as gardening. Mostly classics and speculative fiction.

hey midwest, I moved to the chicago "area" recently and I'm fucking miserable. So I'm fitting in well. Got my family to keep me busy, it's an OK hobby. Hoping to see some regional progressive activity to direct some energy in to. I fuck with fighting games. That's it, don't meet your heroes. Skreeonk

Hello! Another Northern Illinois member here in the 25-35 age bracket. I have some potentially useful knowledge in web development, programming, a good intuition for structural engineering (mostly through woodworking and some 3D printing), and am currently working on some electronics projects.

Technically I'm now a refugee from vlemmy . net (the server suddenly disappeared a few days ago, their donation accounts are suspended/deleted), but before that I was on Reddit where I explored a lot of smaller niche information sharing type communities. I was a mod of a few relatively small communities there under a different name, but have pretty much abandoned the platform since they attacked their power users/mods and started charging exorbitant rates for their API.

Generally, the way I engage:

• I try to follow the paradox of tolerance. I try to be tolerant of others doing/saying anything which does not reduce overall tolerance of society, and when pushing back against intolerant ideology, I aim to politely discuss ideas from a place of logic and reason.
• I tend to engage in discussion of ideas and am happy to discuss hypotheticals that I find interesting. I like to solve problems, and have been known to come up with some atypical (and I'd argue interesting), if often unworkable, solutions/approaches.

I don't have time to devote to moderation/administration, but I'm happy to offer whatever advice I can within my knowledge areas to whoever may ask, such that it is.

Reddit refugee, fediverse newbie, zillennial. Spent some childhood years in Wisconsin and some adult years in Minnesota; plan to go back to MN within a year! Big fan of Tolkien, Studio Ghibli, Makoto Shinkai, metal, folk, and trance music.

PA, programmer, working for a local nonprofit.

Hello all! I'm from the Northern part of the LP of Michigan. A progressive among regressives. I love the outdoors, hiking, and nature watching. I'm a transplant from reddit like most here. I left after I was banned for updoots and refuse to play by their draconian rules. I hope to find many great communities I can be a part of. Still learning this platform, but from what I've seen so far this place is pretty great!