I’ve just started chatting with someone through DMs on the basis of a post about friends. A lot of users on Lemmy seem to be midlife men, so my cohort is definitely here.
Although I’ve been across posts 3 or 4 times where people ask about friendship, no one follows through. I make a room in any chat app they wasn’t to chose and it never gets any joiners. One person asked to be added on Steam, but that’s not really conducive to chatting, if just briefly see them o line sometime when they were in the middle of a game.
My favourite interactions… I just really like that the communities are smaller (than reddit), so it feels like what I contribute counts more and doesnt just get buried. I comment and post a lot more than I used to on reddit.
I’ve always found it better to let online friendships form organically based on shared interests rather than seeking them out. With the second method, there’s a good chance you and the other person won’t have much in common besides wanting to make friends, and the conversation will taper off on its own.
I hope your new chat leads to a strong, lasting friendship :)
I’ve just started chatting with someone through DMs on the basis of a post about friends. A lot of users on Lemmy seem to be midlife men, so my cohort is definitely here.
Although I’ve been across posts 3 or 4 times where people ask about friendship, no one follows through. I make a room in any chat app they wasn’t to chose and it never gets any joiners. One person asked to be added on Steam, but that’s not really conducive to chatting, if just briefly see them o line sometime when they were in the middle of a game.
My favourite interactions… I just really like that the communities are smaller (than reddit), so it feels like what I contribute counts more and doesnt just get buried. I comment and post a lot more than I used to on reddit.
I’ve always found it better to let online friendships form organically based on shared interests rather than seeking them out. With the second method, there’s a good chance you and the other person won’t have much in common besides wanting to make friends, and the conversation will taper off on its own.
I hope your new chat leads to a strong, lasting friendship :)
You can see the writeup here https://piefed.social/post/1002037
tl;dr It started with running Home Assistant for my smart home.
Eventually it became running my own servers to replace google & Microsoft etc.