Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world thatchemguy @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

Hey! Wanna be friends? :3

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 :(

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Sup Nick! Love the energy, and if you legit haven't heard of our friend Nicole, this is hilarious in a good way.

Looks like you're also a sh.it.head (don't worry - this is a good thing!), and so far don't look to be a shithead (which would be a bad thing) so in my book we're already friends :) Welcome!
Lmfao
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 !nicole@feddit.org
- haha me too, i thought it was pretty funny there.
Is this a parody of Nicole?
- Not this again ;-;
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.
"but you can call me the fediverse ~~chick~~ guy/person"
Funny, I also happen to be former military (conscription of course) and currently in STEM. Just a bit older than you.

Friends?
- Friends!
Post, Talk and communicate with people.

As you use the Fediverse you will slowly see regular people pop up, talk to them, especially those you've enjoyed talking to in the past or have something interesting to say to.

The Fediverse is about communication and sharing ideas so do that, This can be done through posting in communities or commenting on posts in communities / topics you are interested in.
- Hiii!
  
  Thanks. I'm new to all this, so I don't know where to start hahaha
  
  It's all good, yeah it's a little different than your traditional social media as instead of going for reactions and pushing out content you actually need to communicate and talk instead of just pushing random posts more of the time to grow an actually connected audience
- This got me thinking. Is there any client app that lets you tag users? I know this used to be a function on reddit. I rarely read usernames so it would be really cool if I could tag someone and their username would have a little reminder on them so I could instantly see I talked to that person before.
  
  Voyager, 1 tag per user
we are all friends here

welcome!
- Thanksss
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
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
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.
Sure. Nicetameetcha.
- Hey friend! What's up?
Depends on which military you served
- 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!! :)
- 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
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.
Which branch? I’m heading into the Air Force to do cybersecurity soon.
- That's actually so cool! I was in the infantry.
no
- :(

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