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[–] keenworld@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Kansas City resident here. I work in publishing and am a tech enthusiast, tinkering with Linux a lot. Not a Reddit refugee, exactly, but a Reddit lurker who decided to join the community here for the discussions I won't be able to find over there anymore.

[–] MTechLife@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

New reddit refugee here

Mid-Michigan born and raised, but the western UP made me the man I am today.

Glad to find a place to experience the fediverse!

[–] wolfheart@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] bizzle@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

[–] TrippyHippyDan@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

VoIP / UCaaS engineer from Wisconsin

[–] Steeltooth493@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] DavidRay@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] anon422@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New St Paul, MN resident, Chicago born, raised in the greater Chicago Land suburbs, and Reddit refuge.

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[–] Klumpmeister@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello! My name is Klumpmeister! I am a 30 year old IT synth nerd who plays guitar and retro games. I currently live in Columbus, OH. Formerly, Bloomington, IN. I loved twitter and reddit and both of them have imploded. I loved Tweetbot and Apollo specifically. Once tweetbot was gone I knew Apollo would be next.

I am happy to see midwest.social and lemmy embrace the fediverse while trying to take on the format of reddit. I would love to see what kind of things lemmy can offer in the topics I liked about reddit. Synths, video games, local topics / discussions.

I am on mastodon as well: @Klumpmeister@mstdn.games

[–] colebrodine@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

South Central Nebraska here, born and raised! I love living and working out here in rural Nebraska. I'm an Electrical Engineer by trade and an Open Source/Linux Enthusiast for fun! I was glad to see there's some other stuff like a woodworking community here also! Looking forward to a replacement for the centralized social medias. I'm already on Mastodon and Pixelfed, so this should be a nice addition for me.

[–] Type1@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Sparton@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Everyone deserves a second chance, we’re glad you’re here!

[–] Sparton@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Impala_driver@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] TheCraiggers@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] SeeStars@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Suburban Chicago resident. Reddit Refugee.

[–] dBot@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] Old_Fat_White_Guy@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Howdy! I'm Mike and I'm in South West Ohio. Im an Ex Sync user migrating like a lot of others.

One question.... before I go scrub my, ahem.... account on that nameless platform, is there an online banking system that will allow my to transfer my hard earned internet points to another platform? You know, kinda like a rollover from one 401k to another?

Not that I had any huge amount.

Anyway...... OH!!!

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[–] null_recurrent@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jimrob4@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Howdy - be sure to check out the Iowa channel I made on here. :)

Thanks for your work @seahorse. I'm pumped to talk regional sports again. Big Ten, NFC North, NBA Central. Adios Reddit.

[–] survivorseason44@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 👋

[–] biscuitsofdoom@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

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

Hello everyone. 26/m living in Peoria IL metro, working in a small evangelical church leading music and trying to not be outed as a leftist and an exvangelical. Interested in movies, Lego, urbanism, fantasy football, and craft beer with a new budding hobby of cocktails. Grew up in Champaign though, so by default I’m into college sports as well.

[–] argentcorvid@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

HI! I guess I'll just c/p my Masto intro in here...

I’m argentcorvid most other places (not Instagram though, that person is not me) I hang around on metafilter and reddit I don’t plan on posing much.

American living in Rural Central Iowa (Marshalltown-ish). I don’t really post much. He/Him, 2 kids, currently catless.

ADHD, and in typical fashion I am a serial hobby-haver. Currently collecting and refurbishing Vintage Coleman Lanterns, other interests include Home Brewing, cooking, smoking, motorcycling.

currently working as a Product Development Testing Technician (that means I break stuff on purpose) for a large company. Before that I was in the Navy.

edit: my mastodon is @argentcorvid@mstdn.social

[–] Chicago@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Chicago resident, pizza enthusiast, web3 maximalist, excited to break free of Reddit 🤙

[–] daveydee@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Chicago, Linux, Cubs, Bears. Heyooo

[–] mibzman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Howdy! I'm from NE Ohio,I've to see more midwesterners on fedi!

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I run this instance from my house in Mayfield Heights! Welcome!

[–] serinus@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, so actual advertising of the instance might be a bad idea?

What are you thinking for the longevity/stability of this project? I'll look around and see if I can find anything about that, maybe in !main .

I love the domain name by the way.

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[–] kadikami@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hey all! Long time Apollo user jumping ship with all the 3PA shenanigans going on. 32, he/they, leftist, pagan, living in WI. Into video games, nature, d&d, fantasy books, NFL, and my wife. Usually more of a lurker than a poster but who knows, maybe that’ll change? Excited to be here and get to know everyone!

[–] imacat@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Lifelong resident of Chicago. I like cats.

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