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Hi all, I'm from the greater St. Louis area. I'm a queer, nerodivergent guy (he/him) looking for a more local internet. I've sorta been in college for a couple years now for multimedia and web development. It's had to be put on the back burner as of late for my mental health. I love art, games, music, and a bunch of dorky stuff. I work in home with people with intellectual disabilities and I didn't know that I could love a job so much. On of my favourite quotes is "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." (Albert Camus) and if you were to ever see me in person I think that's a good summary of the vibe I give haha.

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:

• 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!

• Date nights with my wife! Love hanging out with my lady!

• 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!

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 [email protected] community!

Hello! I’m from NW Arkansas. Here because I’m getting frustrated with reddit and suspicious of it as well. Lots of bots, and fear mongering.

It’s important to me to try to keep my life in perspective. Touch grass. Go on hikes. I am looking for a place where information is not censored by billionaires so here I am… hello.

New to midwest.social and lemmy in general and I had a question - I made some posts/comments from lemmy.ml but I noticed they weren't getting any interaction and they weren't actually showing up when I visited midwest.social directly. Additionally, when subscribing to a community, the button turned to "subscribe pending." Does this mean lemmy.ml is blocked here? I noticed there is a Blocked Instances list (https://midwest.social/instances) but lemmy.ml is listed under Linked Instances

Hi! I'm Nolan from Minneapolis! Trying out this board as part of a broader effort to un-big-tech my life. Didn't see one, so I just created a community for posting about bicycles/cycling! I also love music, the outdoors, and dumb movies. Nice to meet you all!

Hello! Grew up in the Chicago area, and now lived most of my adult life in the Detroit area. I've been mostly lurking on Mastodon for several years now, but somehow didn't know Lemmy existed until the Reddit meltdown. Really glad to be here.

I am Robbey, born in Iowa, live in tx now, used to be on Reddit, loving it much more on lemmy

Hi! Just joined because of the BS happening over at Reddit right now (RIP Apollo 😞). I've enjoyed my experiences on my friend's Mastodon instance and figured a Reddit-adjacent service on the Fediverse could be fun too. Librarian and researcher from Michigan, into social computing/inclusive design, hiking in the woods, collections development, Melee, Dwarf Fortress, etc. Nice to meet you all 👋

Yo duders, Reddit refugee here like many of you. I reside in northeast Indiana. My hobbies include video games mainly on PC, anime, movies, hiking, and traveling. I'm enjoying being here.

Hi. I'm looking for weird shit in the Internet. I decided to hop on Midwest.social to ease the burden in Lemmy.ml

Hi I am from the Detroit area, and happy to join a regional Lemmy instance. I am actively involved with a local opensouce convention called penguicon. And I'm hear to hang out and stuff

Hey all! Lifelong Midwesterner and current Chicagoan. Refugee from r/Chicago and Reddit user of 11 years. I love baking, gardening, and currently engrossed in the new Zelda.

Hello! I live in Kalamazoo, MI and grew up in Muskegon, MI. I'm a part of the mass exodus from reddit. So far I'm enjoying the fediverse and was glad to see an instance dedicated to midwesterners. I work in mental health and enjoy cooking/baking, crafting, painting, kayaking, gardening, gaming (DnD, Zelda, board games) and spending time with my loved ones. Excited to be here!

Hi everyone! I’m a lifelong Iowan in my mid-20s. I work in small museums in the southeast part of the state as a consultant and contractor. So many of these small institutions have part-time volunteers and no professionally trained staff, so I offer guidance with collection management, exhibit curation, event planning, and digital marketing. I like to tell history through material culture and through a philosophy called post-humanism, which looks at the world around us in terms beyond the human perspective.

Outside of that, I am really into head-fi and am mostly listening to music in my free time. Additionally, I like to tinker with Arch Linux and FreeBSD installs and have been teaching myself how to code in Haskell. I’m still rather new to federated social media, but have really been enjoying my transition thus far.

Hello everyone, new user living in Northside Indianapolis but a lifelong Midwesterner that doesn't plan on leaving. I've been concerned with the trends on Reddit for years now since u/spez has been trying to make as much money off the platform as they can. The recent silencing of noncompliant users for opinions on what is supposed to be an open forum was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

I am a firm patriot to the actual ideals of the U.S. and believe economic system should not be tied into it's governing documents as any kind of argument from the wealthy elites controlling the country and the media. The best system for all the people is the best system for the country whether its "Capitalist" or "socialist" or something else. The foundation of the country is a free, open, Democratic Republic not locked to one economic scheme and right now only the leftists seem to be trying anything like that.

Long time deep thinker on civics, political ideology, systems of all types (controls, engineering, human). And how they should best function. A big passion for history. Love gaming of all types, sci-fi and fantasy nerd. Will take a strong opinion and debate about anything for the fun of it as long as it stays intellectual and not an emotional topic.

Looking to start actually being involved in community both here online and in the local area as well and this seemed the place to be. More than willing to discuss anything I said here and would love recommendations for communities.

Hello everyone! Yet another Reddit Refugee, here. I'm a network engineer and DIYer with a passion for calculators, fountain pens, and mechanical pencils. Been on Red Matrix/Hubzilla for years, and I'm looking forward to seeing what this part of the Fediverse is like!

David-Ray here. I live on the western edge of the Ozark highlands. Would like to see a server even more localized to my area. Guess I'll have learn how to run one.

Hi all, with Reddit’s big API change I thought I’d get my foot in the door for another home. I’m back in Minnesota after being born here like 20 years ago (that’s how long it’s been since the 80’s, right?) I’ve lived in Lafayette, Indiana; Kansas City, (both sides), and Eau Claire, WI. I was a semi active, mostly lurker in a bunch of subs for ereaders, Minnesota, Marvel stuff, Forged in Fire, etc…

Stereotypical nerd: Books: Fantasy & Sci-Fi Gaming: Mostly Tabletop & Board, but PC & Console aren’t out of the question. PC: Typically a Mac because I like having access to a big name with integrated Unix, though I have windows Pcs and *nix utility boxes around. Last job: IT support, now stay at home dad.

Hello from the Joliet area of Chicagolandia...

Are you there, fellas? It's me, Bizzle.

Lemmy.world wasn't working for me so I jumped ship over here.

Another reddit refugee, I'm using it as a kick in the back to disengage with most other social media. I'm from Florida but have enjoyed all my Midwest vacations and prefer tavern style pizza to NY pizza.

I'm into cars, outdoors stuff that doesn't require breaking bones, guns, bicycles, food, and antique bottles.