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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.
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.
Welcome! My degree is in archaeology, and I really really loved all the work I did in the historical archaeology arena while in school and for a bit afterwards. Your job sounds like what I wish I would have gotten into ten years ago.
It’s really fulfilling work. There are just so many micro-museums that have never had a professional present to assess where the museum is at and what it can be.
I did some archaeology research for my undergraduate senior thesis, lots of fun stuff! Something I love about museum work is that it is a combination of all the history related fields, science fields (for things like preservation ) and social sciences and education all in one institution. It allows me to wear many hats.
What region/period did you mainly study?
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!
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.
I am Robbey, born in Iowa, live in tx now, used to be on Reddit, loving it much more on lemmy
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.
Are you there, fellas? It's me, Bizzle.
Lemmy.world wasn't working for me so I jumped ship over here.
Hi, former Wisconsinite in exile, trying to move back.
Hi, all! I signed up for Lemmy the other day using another instance, but thought this would be a better fit. I’m a 39 year old male who grew up in Ohio and currently resides in Michigan. By day, I'm a Technology & Strategic Project Manager at the University of Michigan. By night, I'm a technology-obsessed, music-loving vegan. I’ve been active on Reddit since 2010 and am disappointed to see the direction it’s going. I’m quite active on Mastodon, so feel free to connect with me there, as well!
Here's my "me too" post.
Reddit refugee fleeing the third party app bullshit. I'm in IT, HPC to be more specific, at a well-known university in the Midwest. I play lots of video games, and by lots I mean mostly Terraria.
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!
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.
I of course found my way here from reddit. I started lurking on mastodon occasionally when musk first took over Twitter, but I didn't get into it. I wasn't a Twitter user either. This looks more like my jam though.
I'm a lifelong chicagoan (nw side). I've been daily driving slackware since the late 90s. I play a mean bass. I smoke meat when the mood strikes. I bought a fixer upper without the skills or budget to fix it up. I have a 4 year old daughter. I work in international logistics.
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.
Hello! I do IT for the government. Currently in STL (not technically midwest, depending on who you ask) but I grew up in Michigan. I came here due to the news that Reddit will be soon charging 3rd party apps exorbitant and unsustainable (which is probably their goal) prices. Also on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@Arindrew
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!
Hello there. Born and raised in Ohio. Been here for about 20 minutes! Very new to Lemmy and the fediverse in general. This seems like a good place. :)
Howdy! I'm from NE Ohio,I've to see more midwesterners on fedi!
I run this instance from my house in Mayfield Heights! Welcome!
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.
Well, idk. I'm probably not going to pay for a billboard for it although that would be awesome. I have no plans to stop hosting this instance though. Also, the server is physically located in Germany because their privacy laws are better than the US.
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 ;)
Lifelong resident of Chicago. I like cats.
Chicago resident, pizza enthusiast, web3 maximalist, excited to break free of Reddit 🤙
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.