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Wisconsin native here! Software engineer, League player, and so forth. Came over here after seeing just how egregiously bad Reddit leadership has become.

This is a reposting from post-data loss:

I grew up in southeast Iowa (Davenport) and live there currently. I studied history (American Colonial Frontier era Indigenous Material Culture) and chemistry (physically) at Wartburg College, and went on to get a Master’s degree in museum studies from Western Illinois University. I always have loved history and the way we share stories of the past.

I am currently working as an independent museum consultant in southeast Iowa, wherein I hop around to small and micro museums to advise them on collections care, curation, education, and marketing. Most of these museums have one or two part time staff members or are all volunteer based. I come in to lend (a reasonably priced) hand with whatever may be holding that museum or historic home from being its best.

My master’s thesis was concerned with use of a Post-Human methodology in combination with New Materialism to provide new perspectives on objects housed in a museum collection. I really tried my advisor’s patience at times with this topic. I now use this approach in my research and work every day.

Outside of this, I am an avid head-fi enthusiast, I play the viola in the local symphony, I’m Lutheran, and I am linux and freeBSD tinkerer. I came to Lemmy following the loss of Apollo and have now really committed to federated social media. I look forward to connecting with some of you in due time!

Great to see you on BE: 0.18.3 Lemmy progress

Most of the comments in here are from 2mo ago, seems like, but I'll give it a shot.

Michigander here. Lived most of my adult life here, but was raised in Illinois and bounced around for a bit in my 20s.

Started out with the standard rural Midwest set of beliefs (plus a few nutty ones like young earth creationism), but after a great many years of transformation I now consider myself a leftist (and/or socialist depending on my mood) and generally progressive dude.

Love me some tech, anime, video games, jazz, ttrpg, and so on with the nerd stuff. I also draw on the odd occasion, even a few commissions under my belt, but don't expect much. No academic or professional training here.

I do have an academic background in Japanese, Psychology, and general Social Science study methodologies, though I work primarily in IT these days.

I look forward to the discussions here!

Hi, Madison person here, giving this whole Lemmy thing a try. Into city politics, biking, transit. Let's see how it goes.

Hello, it's yet another refugee from the sync for lemmy raft - i dont do much more than lurking and posting about pixel phones

Decided to set up with a more localized instance instead of Lemmy.world. Was born in St. Louis, but grew up across Missouri and Indiana before settling down in a quiet little corner of Ohio.

Hi!

Ohioan here... I too am a recent reddit refugee.... anyone else having digg deja vu?...

Likes: Nerdy things, Video Games, Animals, Ohio sports teams, Music, Traveling

Been on Mastodon for a few months (suck it twitter) and with Reddit's recent money grab figured I'd check out other parts of the fediverse.

St. Louis metro area checking in. Long time Reddit user transitioning away from that site. IT guy. Older but not cantankerous (yet) : ) I like board games, playing and listening to music, hanging with the family, gadgets, Linux, 3D printing, homebrewing, blah blah blah.

@seahorse@midwest.social Is there a like a standard amount new people should donate to the server?

Hola… from Colorado here. Hope everyone is doing well out there…..

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.

Howdy all! I live in the St Louis metro east area. I'm also a reddit transplant and already really digging the community. I'm super excited to be here! I'm into woodworking, making lamps and other crafts. I'm also exploring producing a niche form of EDM music eventually. I'm a fan of general internet research and constantly learning new information.

Hi, former Wisconsinite in exile, trying to move back.

North burbs right on border of Chicago. Also a fellow reddit refugee. Can't believe how sad I was when baconreader stopped working, and my stubborn ass knew I'd walk away.

So happy to have found Lemmy, and a midwest instance to boot.

Still not sure how all this works, but it does more than fill the need of interesting screen time.

In to skateboarding, snowboarding, motorcycles, gaming.

Work as a systems programmer specializing in audio and video systems.

Here from West Michigan as well, long-time moderator on the other place in a cult-recovery sub, but I’ve been active across metal-working and woodworking communities. Big fan of forged in fire and have been dabbling. Love Michigan, spend a good amount of time in Chicago now as well. Really appreciate that for community exists, feels like the early days (which were the Best days) over in the other place. Looking forward to being a part of this community!

Hey, all. Like many, I'm bailing on Reddit given the drama and sheer disrespect for everyone, trying this community with a few friends.

I'm an Iowan, soon-to-be dad, equally-avid gardener and range time enthusiast, software engineer, gamer, etc. Based on the other intros, seems like I'll fit in well enough.

I wish I was consumed with exploring Hyrule; the pre-baby DIY crunch is too time-consuming.

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

Fellow midwesterner here, trying to figure out all this new fangled technology. Trying to find a new home knowing that Reddit will soon be going on the stock market which means it'll become an advertising platform on behalf of Wall Street.

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.

Hi there! I'm from Colorado, which is almost the midwest! I saw the community and decided to pop into Lemmy through here, though, since it seemed to be friendly and welcoming. I write queer fantasy romance and love a good book!

Been replacing windows, mac, IBM db2 mainframe servers with rack mount i86 linux since ~2000. Everything is moving to hosted hardware VMs and away from in-house hardware. It's just cheaper to outsource server maintenance. semi-retired since 2017. Typing isn't my favorite activity. coordination is failing. Be kind. Oh yeah, never used 'social media' much until 2016. wasted time on slashdot, digg, forums, tech and motorcycles a lot. Found a good thread on reddit about a garage door opener I bought. https://stackoverflow.com/ for scripting. had a fun guild on WoW for a few years. SenJin Defiant lol

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. 😊