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 som

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 o

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 a

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 cur