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Hey everyone!

I'm Nick (he/them), I'm 20 and I'm looking for Fediverse friends! I'm former military, and now I'm trying to get into college (Chemical Engineering). I'd love to make friends in STEM, but anyone is welcome!

If you wanna be friends, let me know!

If this is the wrong sub, sorry admins. Idk where to go :(

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[–] thatchemguy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] electro1@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like a dictatorship, sorry to hear that

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, yes. the famous Swiss dictatorship.

[–] electro1@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

It doesn't have to be "official"..

[–] thatchemguy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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!