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this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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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.
Funny, I also happen to be former military (conscription of course) and currently in STEM. Just a bit older than you.
Friends?
Friends!
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
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.
Is this a parody of Nicole?
Not this again ;-;
"but you can call me the fediverse ~~chick~~ guy/person"
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.
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
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
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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
I DMd you
Alright!
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 ~~normal~~ French speaking in on the jlailu instance, example the not very active !suisse@jlai.lu.
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!
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!
Sure. Nicetameetcha.
Hey friend! What's up?
Which branch? I’m heading into the Air Force to do cybersecurity soon.
That's actually so cool! I was in the infantry.
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).
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Nick... Ol' Nick.... Nick Ol'.... 🫢
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!! :)
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