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!