Default community for midwest.social. Post questions about the instance or questions you want to ask other users here.
Are folks from other instances welcome here? Still figuring out etiquette or whatever. I got impatient over the weekend and jumped into Lemmy through sopuli.xyz due to a lower barrier to entry.
I'm a Minnesota person living in St. Paul. I coordinate graduate programs, which basically means I'm a nanny for graduate students. Movie nerd and sweet tooth haver. 1 dog and 3 cats. I used to be a forklift operator and a freight railroad conductor. Formerly UFCW, BLET, and AFSCME. Now I'm IWW IU620.
VoIP / UCaaS engineer from Wisconsin
Lifelong resident of Chicago. I like cats.
Chicago resident, pizza enthusiast, web3 maximalist, excited to break free of Reddit 🤙
Hey all. Twin Cities native here, enjoys android, books, fountain pens, and more. I've always meant to dig deeper into the fediverse but mastodon wasn't calling to me. I'm glad to have the reason (reddit) to explore this one now.
Former Reddit user who is jumping ship after 13 years, I live in the Twin Cities I’ve been in IT for more than 10 years trying to jump ship to programming interest our programming fanfiction litRPG‘s and audiobooks not necessarily in that order.
Morning everyone. Chicago suburb native of 42 years who doesn't really feel like leaving. Working at one of the many data centers in the Chicago area, if you can call it work, because I enjoy technology in general. I joined because I've been migrating from legacy social media to the Fediverse; Reddit's API nonsense helped that process along.
Contrary to what my parents and sisters drilled into my head as I was growing up, I've been leaning more and more left as I age. At some point, someone decided that giving our children a better life meant making them suffer. Seems like teaching my kids to be grateful for the opportunities they have, respect others' beliefs, accept people from all walks of life, stand up for marginalized groups, foster positive mental health outcomes, not expect anything to be handed to them, and just be good people in general makes me a communist in the eyes of many, including my own parents. I'm gonna have to pass on whatever ideology came up with that and work toward dismantling it.
Beyond that ... I'm pretty low key most of the time. I like PC (Linux) gaming, physical computing, 3D printing, video editing, analog media preservation, listening to open source-related podcasts, road trips, dogs, glamping, grilling, beer, grilling while glamping and drinking beer and hanging out with my dogs, etc. I listen to metal but have been on a Sleep Token kick since the newest album was released.
I don't speak up often because someone else typically said what I want to say first, posting responses like "This" is annoying, and upvotes are silent. At any rate, nice to meet everyone, hope to be able to contribute something useful at some point.
Hello everyone. I'm from S.E. Michigan, north of Detroit. I happened across these communities by accident. I don't like to troll or harass. I was raised with old morals, treat others as you would like to be treated, respect is not given, it is earned and so on.
Hope ya'll have a great day.
Another emigredditor here. I never posted much over there, I hope this platform stays cozy & welcoming after the inevitable influx!
I’m in Central Illinois, and I was very pleased to see there’s already a !cats@midwest.social community!
Hey all. Another Reddit refugee from SE Michigan. Looking forward to discovering how this works.
Hey everyone. I’m a lemm.ee refugee too, looking forward to learning and building community here. Is Denver the midwest? No matter how many here vehemently deny it, we all know the truth (yes). I’m a recovering anarchist turned revolutionary M-L.
Southern Indiana, Hoosier native gamer and traveller.
Reddit abandoner
Former midwesterner, moved out of Columbus, OH with my wife to be closer to her family in PA, so midwest adjacent. Also 100% new to the fediverse (looked it up and explored it just this morning), and loving every corner I've visited so far.
I'm a tech/gaming enthusiast, who works from home, and also happens to live on a 170+ year old 12(ish) acre farmette just outside of Gettysburg, so I will be hunting down the garden and farming posts on here o.o
I joined Mastodon a bit ago & loving it, so let's give the Reddit equivalent a spin. Chicagoland here.
I have to admit though it's pretty jarring to see self-professed leftists toss around "refugee" casually.
If you have a criticism, you might actually state it. Instead of just being vaguely judgy.
Not really a productive approach.
Howdy. New user from the Chicago suburbs. Mostly lurked on reddit because it felt too big to get meaningfully involved. This seems like a nice change of pace.
Look forward to getting to know you all.
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.
What do we do with a half dozen Midwest game programmers? What would a midwest specific game even be? Corn shucking simulator, maybe an RPG with passive aggressive alignment, or perhaps maybe a game called the long goodbye where you desperately try to leave a party without being impolite.