Hey everyone!
I’m Nick (he/them), I’m 20 and I’m looking for Fediverse friends! I’m former military, and now I’m trying to get into college (Chemical Engineering). I’d love to make friends in STEM, but anyone is welcome!
If you wanna be friends, let me know!
If this is the wrong sub, sorry admins. Idk where to go :(
Heh, I’m an EE dropout kinda in machine learning stuff now. Good luck, chemical engineering seems tough (but cool).
But yeah, on Lemmy the idea is to post in communities that fit your niches, rather than trying to follow people directly like Mastadon, Twitter or whatever. Those are a bit slim but growing (for instance, there are some active science-focused communities/servers).
Cool! Thanks for letting me know. I’m taking my time exploring hahaha. Do you have any Fediverse friends?
Not particularly, just frequent posters I’m familiar with.
I plan to get more involved once I get some personal stuff straight.
Fairsies!
I don’t mean to be rude though, PM me about stuff if you want! But I make no promises about a timely response lol.
Is this a parody of Nicole?
Not this again ;-;
I dont mind friends. I never went to the military, but I am pursuing a PhD in aerospace engineering at the moment. Not exactly chemical, but engineering is engineering ya know :D
Oh that’s pretty cool! How can I reach out to you?
DMs? I dont really have much else as I dont use social media much at all
Alright!
I DMd you
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Nick… Ol’ Nick… Nick Ol’… 🫢
You can probably start on mastodon were people have more casual conversations. You will probably find someone with your same interests. Enjoy your journey on the fediverse!
Oooh I did make a Mastodon account earlier, but I thought that wouldn’t matter too much because of federation. Did I get it wrong?
You got it right, you can interact with Lemmy from Mastodon and vice versa but it is limited to certain things.
Also not all instances are federated with each other which can be a nuisance to keep track of.
Hmmm I see. So I’ll keep both account for now. Thank you!
Anything you like to talk about (hobbies)?
I love to talk about (Free and Libre) Open Source Software, Homelabs, HEMA, LARP, Pen&Paper, Space and anything humanity.
we are all friends here
welcome!
Thanksss
Depends on which military you served
He says all men are required to serve for a year or two. That means not baby killer country. Most likely Taiwan, Finland, or Korea
Hmmm… I don’t think I’m quite comfortable telling people where I’m from publicly just yet, but my country is pretty peaceful. Rest assured we’re not invading other countries or anything like that xd
Okay then!! :)
Former military by 20??
In my country, military service is mandatory for all men when they turn 18, and then you serve for 1 year (up to 2). Hope that answers it :P
Sounds like a dictatorship, sorry to hear that
Ah, yes. the famous Swiss dictatorship.
It doesn’t have to be “official”…
xd
Welcome fellow cheese lover. If you’re from where I guess you’re from, we have a few communities for our big plus country.
Most of
normalFrench speaking in on the jlailu instance, example the not very active [email protected].I think there are some English Switzerland communities and I don’t know about German, they are probably linked with the main German instance (like we are on jlailu with the rest of francophonie).
And as IRL, Italian speaking part does not exist 🤷🏻♂️
But you’ll find plenty of cool communities not related to a country or language. My favourite type are the ones where you can speak about whatever you want.
Also as a nice to know, you can blacklist keywords on several apps (and communities, peoples or instances), that way you can avoid the US politics spam around news communities.
It takes a little while to craft your perfect lemmy experience, but once done it’s a cool place!
Which branch? I’m heading into the Air Force to do cybersecurity soon.
That’s actually so cool! I was in the infantry.
Funny, I also happen to be former military (conscription of course) and currently in STEM. Just a bit older than you.
Friends?
Friends!
Sure. Nicetameetcha.
Hey friend! What’s up?
Thought this was a Nicole parody at first.
Can we call you the Fediverse Dude?
I have no idea what you’re talking about xD
If you hang around long enough, you’ll get a DM from someone named Nicole, aka the Fediverse Chick, trying to phish you into clicking some probably sketchy links. I don’t think anyone really knows the story behind it. There’s a whole community dedicated to it at [email protected]
That’s scary. Thanks for the heads up haha
Aww that’s cute, you already made a friend.
i have gotten at least 10-25 of her pm’s and more often than not they are different and from different servers
it’s a wild ride
Well I guess not even the Fediverse is free from spammers T-T
To be technical, you mean “scammers,” who are far, far worse.
haha me too, i thought it was pretty funny there.
