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How do alone people find each other online? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am not joking when I say that I thinked for hours about how do people find each other in 2025.

Currently, the world is in very weird state. People online are either using social video platforms or they are reading news or lurking in online forums in it's different shapes and forms.

Most chat platforms that I know had shut down and most alt social platforms are almost dead. Even Hackernews had started to see a lower amount of comments compared to previous years.

I want a serious answer, how should I find people online to talk to about anything really other than politics?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Finding community in the modern age requires you to get interested and participate in something specific. Specific communities are often on Discord or equivalent, for example I'm super into some very specific video games with thriving communities, into specific genres of books and have found like minded people, love chatting about specific computing topics, etc. Specialize your interests and find others who have done the same

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

This is exactly it. A lot of my good friends are from my old smash melee days, and my current circle is mostly from destiny 2. I don't play either game these days or keep in the loop with the games' overall communities, but that doesn't change much with this crew. Hell, someone I met through destiny LFG years ago flew out to my wedding last year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

You know any discord servers for readers of sci-fi? I've looked around a couple times and the ones I've found are either tiny and inactive or huge and have way too much going on.