Welcome! Feel free to introduce yourself here in the c/main channel if you’d like.
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
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.
I’m also reading the expanse. I’m just on book 2 though…my reading time is limited.
It’s a great read but a lot to books! Enjoy!
I just started Leviathan Wakes on Libby. It feels like a slow start… I cant tell if thats actually the case or I am just too burnt out.
What kind of cycling? I’m in the market for a mountain bike at the moment but I’m hemming and hawing since the market seems shitty (and I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing)
Hey everyone, started exploring Lemmy the other week and really jumped in after the Apollo news broke.
I’m gamer/podcaster/dad/wannabe bourbon enthusiast from Michigan.
I have a tech role in logistics and am just looking for a chill community to be a part of.
Currently consumed with exploring Hyrule.
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!
Yet another reddit refugee, but the only thing I will miss is the niche animal husbandry subreddits.
My main interests are critter genetics & habitat management, and a lot of husbandry n enrichment on the side. Always been a bit of a pain to be lefty & interested in livestock, most of the old forums such as they still exist are full of people that are pretty aggressive in their disapproval of my sort. But maybe I’ll find a niche eventually!
I do other science n tech reading and cruise some of the hobby stuff (carpentry, mini terrain, jewelry making… I like a little bit of a lot of things) but don’t usually post as much as lurk those areas.
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!
Thanks for your work @seahorse. I’m pumped to talk regional sports again. Big Ten, NFC North, NBA Central. Adios Reddit.
Go hawks!
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Hi, I’m Corwin! TL;DR: wordy nerd for MN; lotsa kids, cats, GNU vol.
I’m yet-another-new-user bc Reddit; glad for the mass troop move toward FOSS and federated things, social especially. Over the last few years, I’ve been weaning myself off mass-media social: forgive me, hacker, it’s been (only) three days since my last reddit/twitter/FB post. RE FOSS, I volunteer with some projects like EmacsConf and GNU Savannah. If you are looking to get involved with FOSS volunteering but aren’t sure where you can get started HMU :)
Ahem. Meanwhile, in the interest of full disclosure. About Emacs…
Passion for Emacs has been likened (variously derisively or with found amusement) to religious fervor.
I help with the annual conf, like I mentioned. I make official binaries for Emacs available from GNU FTP servers/mirrors. I help with ERC, one of the IRC clients that ships with Emacs. I’m making an RPG engine for Emacs called dungeon-mode. I feel that this post will be incomplete unless I tell you even more about Emacs right now:
Emacs is a text editor built around a lisp machine. Most of it is implemented in Emacs Lisp (elisp). It can be customized using menus, like a normal program. Or using code, programs full of code, auto-generated programs, self-modifying programs, and so on… such nonsense for a text editor to be doing any of this, of course.
Hopefully, you can see where I occasionally get myself in trouble. Every once in a while I need someone to tell me “no”. To say “Corwin. Oh, Corwin. The X forum doesn’t want to hear about how you integrated X into Emacs.” “STFU about Emacs please Corwin”, And so forth.
TIA if that’s you.
In conclusion, when you are ready to talk about Emacs, find me on IRC corwin@libera.chat#emacs.
MN; 48/wm/2 partners 17y/5y, 5kids, 5cats. emacs4evah
Welcome. Daily emacs driver here, though I’m one of those sickos who uses it only as a text editor!
I’d love to get more involved with FOSS volunteering.Though, you may not be happy to hear I’m in a committed relationship with vim…
Feel free to reach out if you have any trouble finding a place to leap in! No vim hate from me: never condemn those who walk where you dare not tread ;)
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.
You’re forklift certified??? 🥵🥵🥵🥵
Edit: Sure, users from other instances are welcome.
It’s been a minute, but I was! I bet if you put me on an order picker today I’d only do like tens of thousands worth of damage tops 😋
Heyy. AFSCME local 722 over here (pharmacy worker at a hospital)
What’s up, Council 5 sibling?!
Hey! What’s a movie that you love that I may not have seen?
Same guy, different instance :)
What kind of movie? The comedy One, Two, Three! with James Cagney from the 60s is a lot of fun. Hausu is a bonkers Japanese haunted house movie that’s very special. If you want something more recent and in English, Coherence is a great low-budget science fiction/horror film that was done extremely well.
123 & Coherence look interesting! I’ll have to check them out.
Hausu is a masterpiece.
Hausu is a masterpiece.
We’re gonna get along juuuust fine 🤗
What’s “Technically an archaeologist” for you? I’m a long-time CRM shovelbum from Minneapolis. As a grad school coordinator, do you know or have any opinions on the U’s newish heritage or whatever they call it program? I’m reaching the point in my life where I’d really like stable, permanent work, which you pretty much can’t get without a master’s, and I’d rather not have to move to St Cloud for their program.
Hey, it’s me from my midwest.social account. I got admitted to this instance a day or so after posting that so I never saw any of these responses.
My degree is in archaeology and I RA’d on a couple projects, but after graduating I never managed to do anything with it. It’s been like 15 years since I’ve been in the field. At this point I’m fully unqualified to actually do the work, but it’s still my academic background and my current work environment is alllll about your academic background. I slap “technically” in there so nobody like you with actual expertise asks me anything tricky 😛
Do you have a link for the program you’re referring to? I can look it over and see how it looks to me. If it’s a UMN program, I may be able to get you in touch with someone who could tell you even more.
Hello! Quad Citizen reporting in, pretty active in the /r/Iowa and /r/QuadCities subreddits and poking around to see who’s popped up in Lemmy.
MOST of our buildings are solid.
MOST of our buildings are solid.
I read about that. I wonder if the builders if my home shared some design ideas with the architects there…
Happy to see someone else from the Quad Cities! I grew up on the north end of Davenport.
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.
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.
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.
Chicago leftist here! I like to play games, do Mutual Aid when I can, and read a lot of theory. Came over here to find a new community and more opportunities to network with other lefties.
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.
