Bonjour, I'm Mak out of the Great Lakes Region. I'm out of NEOhio. I do Anarchist shit from time to time.
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Default community for midwest.social. Post questions about the instance or questions you want to ask other users here.
Hey there from the Minnesota side of the St.Croix Valley. "Build guy" by trade currently dabbling in Splunk and Cribl. Lived in Chicago for a while, but MN is home. Skol Vikes!
Hello! I am in Chicago and curious to explore Lemmy and shoot the shit :)
May I create a South Dakota community? I noticed there's not one. We've got North Dakota, but not South Dakota.
For context, I live in South Dakota.
Hello fellow kids. Fellow great lakesian here.
Howdy all. Think I'm figuring out how Lemmy and the Fediverse works. Neat stuff. Hoping to see midwest.social take off as reddit implodes.
Looks like the site Avatar is down. My avatar didn't load either until I re-uploaded a new one. Some users are showing and others are not. Browser cache refresh doesn't do anything either, so it seems to be something on the server side. Other than that, I'm enjoying my time here. Cheers!
Hello. I have lived in Kansas for all but three years of my life. Liked Seattle and Dallas, but they weren't home. Been thinking about Lemmy for a while and, even though RedReader has gotten a reprieve, even QuantumBadger, the developer, doesn't like Reddit's direction. So, here I am and am looking forward to it. Retired now and getting ready to do some traveling, but I will always be a midwesterner.
Hey all! Nebraskan from the lone blue dot in a sea of red.
Hello, I'm in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Even thought most of the state thinks we're basically NYC, it's definitely right wing town. Trying to get away from Reddit and a friend suggested checking out Lemmy.
Hi! I'm @slackadelic as you can tell! I've used this moniker for many years. The root of the nick comes from Slackware Linux many, many moons ago. I'm a father first, a husband second, and a gamer the rest of the time!
I like to play a lot of different games including #TheDivision2, #SeaOfThieves, #Battlefield (4 or 2042, either works for me).
My biggest hobby is streaming! You can always find me on #YouTube under my tag of slackadelicYT (yeah, whomever has my proper moniker never uses their account! ARGH!)
My main concentration right now for gaming is #TheDivision2 right now.
Other things I'm into:
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Information Technology - This is my primary field of study and have been doing it for many, many years My main concentration is networks and network engineering. I do have a pretty complicated setup at home, comes with the territory!
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Date nights with my wife! Love hanging out with my lady!
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Spending time with my kiddos. When they're not fighting each other and making a mess :)
I'm also a proud father to a recent high school graduate! Very, very proud of her!
Anything else, just ask!
Howdy! I’m from the great khanate of Illinois, from the northern suburbs. I’m trying to jump ship from Reddit to escape the enshittification before it continues worsening. I’m a marketer by trade (the devils work, I know), however I’ve got hobbies in politics, light gaming, reading, and film. Big fan of sci-fi and alt-history.
Are you there, fellas? It's me, Bizzle.
Lemmy.world wasn't working for me so I jumped ship over here.
Greetings, all. Former Game Developer, located in the Metro Detroit area, looking for an alternative to Reddit. Presently in an offshoot of the game business, doing simulations work with game engines, but nothing real fun and interesting, and mostly can't-talk-about stuff.
Also have done some maybe interesting work in online resale.
Huge Star Trek nerd right now, mid Superhero pop culture nerd, fan of 80's-00's alt/rock/metal.
This makes me wonder if this site has a spot for user profiles, and stuff like that. Always interesting to try out new things, and so far, this doesn't turn me off... although I could wish for some adjustments to the UI. If I get particularly vexed by something, but I still like it, I might dig into developing something :)
was searching for some other communities and i noticed the following servers are blocked?
lemmygrad.ml
exploding-heads.com
Is there a reason these are blocked should we steer clear of any of the communities on those servers?
I am from Bloomington Indiana and I am originally from St. Louis. I do a lot of natural language processing for my day job and as part of my PhD. I am into homelabbing, coffee roasting and gardening. I'm hoping to link up with some other Blooomingtonians on here if they're around.
Hi there, folks - I'm Scott Starkey, a software developer and part-time magician living in Indiana. I'm not a big fan of the stuff that Reddit is doing, so I thought I'd explore other options.
I'm also available on Mastodon with a bevy of accounts:
We seem to be lacking some communities that I'd like to see on Lemmy, specifically #Magic, #Esperanto, #GameDevelopment, and maybe #Freemasonry. Maybe I'll volunteer to set those up, once I figure out all the stuff.
Edit to say, I found an Esperanto forum: [email protected]
Yes! Finally, another game developer! There are dozens of us, dozens!
Hello there!
Just another in the Reddit exodus. Southern Indiana. I enjoy gaming and programming. In my spare time I enjoy working on anything with an engine. Although since my back went out the most of the work has been light stuff.
I'm new to Lemmy and the Fediverse been here a whole 3 days! I'm usually a lurker but will occasionally comment. Thanks everyone!
I'm pretty much going to echo a lot of the same sentiments. I expect my Reddit usage will plummet when the third party apps are killed so I've gotta waste time somewhere.
I'm a long time, old school nerd. Tabletop games, video games, fantasy books, enough programming know how to make lives difficult, all that kinda thing.
Been rereading some old Spider-Man comics on Marvel unlimited lately. I've probably got a bit of a Tears of the Kingdom addiction going on as well. There's plenty more about me and I'm hoping this will be a fun, new internet home for the immediate future.