Friend Ship

Hi all,

I haven't instant messaged with strangers in a good bit and I kind of want to relive those days, so giving this another shot.

I made a post here a couple years back and made connections with a couple cool people, but eventually those faded. Trying again now that lemmy is more popular, not sure if this time it will just get swallowed up in the massive sea of posts that are here now.

I'd like to use a messenger that is supported by a FOSS linux client. I still have an XMPP (decentralized messenger) account, so that would be my first choice, but I'd be fine to sign up for matrix, or anything else that I can run easily from a desktop client on linux. To be clear, you don't have to be a linux user yourself, I'm pretty sure pidgin works great for XMPP on windows.

To help you decide whether you should talk to me, I made these lists:

Reasons you should talk to me:

• You had a good day and want to share that with someone.

• You had a bad day and want to share that with someone.

• You want to talk about depression and emotional health with another human being.

• You want to shoot the shit about listening to music and don't mind when those discussions stray far from the mainstream. (My favorite stuff is neoclassical, metal, and industrial.)

• You have some tiny amount of comfort with your arch linux setup and want a chance to show off to an arch user who knows even less than you do.

• You have pokemon violet version, but need a pokemon from scarlet version to complete your pokedex. (I've also played a ton of Yo-Kai 3. Monster taming games in general are my niche.)

• You're confused as to why every right adjoint preserves all monic arrows, but don't want to sign up for the mathematics stackexchange.

• You have an interest in computer programming, and are happy to discuss that stuff with a novice. (I need to pick haskell back up, I think I was approaching being good enough to write Hello World.)

• You follow the NHL and want to emphasize that I should feel bad for rooting for a team currently employing Tom Wilson.

• You somehow obtained an XMPP messenger account but no one else seems to use it.

• You think maybe messaging me would help you justify all the time you just wasted on reading this stupid list.

Reasons you should not talk to me:

• You do not feel you would be satisfied with a platonic-only friendship. (I am happily married.)

• You are not an adult. (I don't doubt that there are tons of cool teenagers out there, but I would feel like a creep.)

• You have high standards.

• You would be upset with the fact that I can be flaky and with me sleeping totally ridiculous hours. (Case in point: It's almost 2AM where I live. Going to bed soon.)

• Mi Espanol no es bueno, no hablo Espanol. (Want to learn but haven't made progress.)

• You went through my post history and found that I said something horribly offensive three years ago.

• Honestly, I'm awkward as shit.

Send me a pm and let's talk!

I'm running my own XMPP server, and Matrix homeserver for couple of years now. And all of my contacts on those networks are all from the FOSS communities I participate in, so they are not quite the friends, as in can't call them when I'm having a crisis in life, although I'm sure (or so I hope) they'll help when I'm having a crisis with my host. :P

I'm passionate about veganism, free software, cinema, online privacy, and reading the books which I buy on impulse :P.

In my non-work (work as a sysadmin) time, I contribute to FOSS. In my non-computer time, I watch movies, cook food, read the books (mostly: fiction, philosophy) which I accumulated. I'm currently reading Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama, practice Japanese Kanji characters, and vocabulary, and also learning to sketch. As a fallback option, I go to sleep.

In terms of personality, I'm liberal, atheist, loner, and not on any centralized social networks.

If you're awake in day time of UTC+5.5 zone, and are interested in chatting on XMPP, Matrix, or any other FOSS decentralized platform, then feel free to message me.

Also MBTI type is INTP-T.

よろしくお願いします

P.S. this is my first time posting here, let's hope it posts fine :D

What I'm looking for:

I'm offering to be a friend to chat with occasionally over XMPP messenger. Platonic only because I am happily married, and I'd rather not chat with anyone under 18 just because I would feel like a creep.

My interests:

I love listening to music, but more often weirder music like neoclassical, industrial, and various subgenres of extreme metal.

In general I try to support libre software, but I'm not perfect with it and definitely make exceptions for games. I especially like pokemon and other monster-collecting games. I want to learn to program but haven't gotten any deeper than what's necessary to do the first fifty or so project euler programs in haskell.

I was abd in mathematics, and my qualifiers were in category theory and algebraic topology. I got burnt out for a while but I'm starting to enjoy math again now that I'm not under pressure to perform.

I follow the NHL. Since the playoffs in 1998 I was watching Capitals games every once in a while, but about ten years ago I started watching them religiously and still am.

Politically I identify as pretty far left, but I don't have good knowledge of theory.

About me:

Honestly, I can be very flaky and I know I might not be the ideal friend. Things have been hard lately. I am unemployed and have been very sick with post-covid symptoms since my recovery end of March. Still, if anyone wants to talk I would be happy to.

Hello beautiful soul! 🌼 My name is Luca, and I'm a 23-year-old girl from Hungary. I'm open to building a friend-ship with anyone that might vibe with me.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself - I'm ever changing, but here's what I can tell you at this very moment.

I currently live in a 100-year-old house in a teeny-tiny village with three beautiful souls - @mahnqee, who is a beautiful human, Haku, who is a beautiful dog, and Tinta, who is an equally beautiful cat. I'm an online English tutor, and I really enjoy my job, as it lets me spread positivity and motivation, as well as -something I enjoy dearly- break stereotypes and illusions about learning and one's abilities.

In my free time... Wait, all my time is my free time... In my time, what brings me joy is cooking and eating delicious vegan food, spending time with souls I connect with, being in nature, doing yoga, drawing, reading, writing (poetry and fiction), or watching something I whole-heartedly enjoy.

What I'm currently manifesting is seeing more of the World and getting to live in a warm climate with a community, a tribe, a family.

Feel free to message me if you would like to talk! 🌼