Welcome! Feel free to introduce yourself here in the c/main channel if you’d like.

  • twice_hatch@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Hi, I’m in Central Illinois. Reddit doesn’t let me make accounts anymore… they want email addresses and I want privacy.

  • drthunder@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Hey all, I live in Wisconsin and am exploring moving over from Mastodon because I like the Reddit-style interface better than Twitter-style. Like probably most here, I’m a tech nerd who is forever trying to get people away from the centralized internet.

  • milltertime_3227790@midwest.social
    19·
    2 years ago

    From Chicago. I made the plunge to Mastodon (and here) after the Reddit shenanigans and just seeing the repeated bad-faith policies by Twitter. I have been using redirector and libredirect for the last month or two to actively decide who I give my data to just as a fun experiment into best practices.

    I think it’s slowly starting to be clear that this type of setup will be the way forward for the more tech-savvy, privacy-focused users, and hopefully/eventually it hits the mainstream as well, but otherwise, it’s just self-selecting into the type of people I want to be around, which will probably be better for my mental health anyways.

    I’m into cycling, trading, sci-fi and FOSS. Currently reading The Expanse and taking a sabbatical year from work

    Edit: Just want to encourage people to engage w/ and create content over the next few weeks. Activity and friendly faces are probably the most determining factor in whether someone becomes an active user or just browses for a few minutes

    • FrancesTheMute@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Thank you for your edit to your post. I agree, engagement is key. I never posted on read, just consumed. Your edit encouraged me to be different this time. I want lemmy to succeed and grow. Liking what I see so far!

      I have been meaning to get into the expanse. I’ve heard such great things about the show, and the books were often recommended on the various books subreddits when searching for sci-fi books. Will have to start that series.

  • miah@midwest.social
    11·
    2 years ago

    Sup nerds. I’m Miah, I’m from Western Michigan. I’m a UNIX/Linux nerd, Right to Repair advocate, and transgender woman. I’ve been working on our cars by myself and would love to make some car nerd friends. My wife and I have 24 chickens, and a budding garden.

  • Type 1 [Missouri]@midwest.social
    10·
    2 years ago

    Howdy! I’m Evan, I’m from STL, and recently graduated from S&T with a BS in CS, going back for an MS. I’m a linguist, software engineer, musician, FOSS contributor, and Fediverse enthusiast. I build computers, run servers, write music, and get angry at the US/MO on the daily.

    P.S.: call me scum, because I’ve only ever used Reddit via their official app, but at least I jumped ship!

  • Guthix@midwest.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    Another former reddit user from the Twin Cities here. Enjoying learning about lemmy so far, still trying to figure out how it works! Big fan of disc golf, board games, books, and video games.

  • CrelekTheRabbit@midwest.socialEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Hi there. Iowan leftist fleeing the mainstream platforms to help my mental health. Feeling disillusioned with national political action and wanting to focus my attention locally. I’m and avid gardener, war-gamer/mini painter, and forever D&D GM.

  • ChronicEd@midwest.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    Osiyo (Cherokee) Oy li’one (Tzotzil: I’m here)

    SW Kansas here, and my brain has decided to take a back seat to life, so throw in chronic pains, I’m just hunting for a new way to exist. Don’t know what I’m doing yet, but I know I’m doing it, heh heh heh…What? I don’t know. Do you know? No I do not, but would you like to know? Of course I would. Well tough luck there, pal.

    Anyway, before the 'ol thinker decided to call it quits, I used to be quite the nerd. I dabbled in C, assembly, bash (Slackware user, so I better know bash, heh), calc, pari/gp, mathematics (Began aiming for number theory just before the brain gave out), native american languages, sharks, carnivorous plants, ferns, cooking, just to name the easiest.

  • Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    From a Wisconsin Exurb of the Twin Cities. I am an astronomer and instrumentation physicist, most of my day job is debugging software and electronics. But sometimes it is looking at galaxies and exoplanets. I am getting back into running after an injury and am currently reading about political economics.

  • Famborghini@midwest.social
    71·
    2 years ago

    Hey y’all I’m Josh and I’m from Iowa but go to school for Music in SoDak. Getting booted off Reddit because I only use Apollo and this seems like a pretty solid alternative. Looking forward to building the communities with y’all!

    Upon further investigation of this comment section I may be the only SoDakian in here lol. Surprised SoDakZack hasn’t jumped over from Reddit

  • nick@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Hi everyone. I showed up here because I saw Seahorse at the Akron pride fest with his awesome flag, told some of my likeminded friends about it, and they found his post. I showed up to applaud him, and decided to just stick around.

    I used to use Reddit, with a very carefully curated list of subreddits, which I used replace my Twitter constant stimulation requirement. I had to ditch Reddit the day they killed Apollo and won’t be returning unless they reverse that decision.

    I’m happy to have found this place, it’s nice.

    I’m from Akron Ohio, work (remotely) in tech (job based in San Francisco), and do not like cops, landlords, or the ruling class really.

    I feel like I’d fit in here pretty well.