Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

Hello!

I've been studying Computer Science for a few years, but due to changing my major as well as a lot of online classes I haven't been able to meet many fellow developers in my university, especially not those who share my interests within the field. And as far as I know, there aren't many physical community gatherings happening close to where I live.

I would like to change that.

So: those of you who have managed to successfully connect with other developers online, how did you do it?

If anyone would like to chat or learn together, just send me a message here or email me at: erikpl (at) duck (dot) com. These days, my learning is focused on C (related to a compiler course) and video streaming (work-related).

Can you recommend any specific communities on Slack/Discord?

I have great fun on small discords, join the community for a software library you use, a game engine, an open source project, a topic, e.g emulator development. The smaller the better usually.

I host a small Discord for devs hacking on cool tech through my company (for an invite go to https://discord.multiprocess.io). Folks here interested in compilers/databases/emulators/big data/ML are welcome to join, introduce yourself and hang out.

join IRC servers, Discord servers, contribute to open source, be active in suggestion discussions

internet is a richer world than IRL, flawed with social codes, unfair physical comparisons, wealth gap issues etc

on the internet, you are just another random user, it's beautiful

the only time it's ugly, is when people censor you because you speak the truth and it goes against their agenda..

but this is the same stuff IRL, the advantage of the internet is you can create a new life, it's a matter of a click

embrace the internet, contribute, and eradicate the censors by pissing them off