Well, I added “The Lou” for two reasons - 1) Some other person had started up a /c/saintlouis community (and let it dwindle) and I wanted this one to visibly stand out from that one in search results, and 2) I also started /c/missouri and named it “Missouri | The Show-Me State”, so I wanted a nick name to go along with this one as well. I haven’t heard anyone call it “St. Louie” in a hot minute, so I went with a newer one.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-city-of-St-Louiss-nickname-and-why-was-it-given-this-name

What do you think of using “Gateway to the West”? That’s probably the most tried and true city nickname I know of.

For the record, I’m not commenting on this only because I’m not going to doxx myself. 😉

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ST LOUIS-ISM COMPLETE.  LET US NOW EAT GOOEY BUTTER CAKE AND PORK STEAKS AND TOASTED RAVIOLIS.

Sam Page, still looking out for the well being of people in STL. I didn’t know much about him before COVID and how he dealt with all of the anti-mask / antivax assholes, but every time I hear about something he’s done it’s been good for the community.

Also, obligatory: fuck christo-fascists.

I think Denethor had more regard for Faramir than most Tolkien fans have for The Hobbit movies. I know the only way I’ll watch them anymore is the fan edit 4-hour cut that removes all the crap that wasn’t in the book.

I thought this was newsworthy mostly because someone used the sentence “Just say no to drugs.” unironically and as a serious argument in favor of banning something in the year 2023.

You do what you will, don’t let me stop you. I never called anyone an outsider, but I also wouldn’t have the hubris to start an online community on a growing social platform about a city I recently moved to, then tell people repeatedly how I don’t know anything about the city and otherwise contribute very little to that sub.

Been doing alright so far. Haven’t noticed any blips since late yesterday I believe.

Yeah, was going to ask if it had to do with Grandpa Simpson. :D

Oh no, that broke the icon that displays in the browser tab and therefore the icon for the bookmark. :(

How about this one? It has a transparency layer and may work better (not sure what makes it appear in the browser tab properly, though) -
https://www.bls.gov/regions/images/midwest_map.png

My main motivation (other than having already created this and the MO subs over at lemmy.ml and was just copying them here) was that the guy who created it has proclaimed multiple times that he only moved to STL a few years ago, and I don’t see why that qualifies him to run our community. I was born and raised here.

He also spelled it out “Saint Louis” in the title, and appears to use his real picture as his profile pic. I mean seriously, who does either of those things? (Joking, but kind of not?)

Also I intend on being more active than posting a thread like “Promote your favorite restaurant” every few days.

Possibly related…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFn7MiJz_s

Howdy all. Think I’m figuring out how Lemmy and the Fediverse works. Neat stuff. Hoping to see midwest.social take off as reddit implodes.