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

submitted 9 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] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Online book clubs are kind of a thing.

Welcome to Lemmy, just find a community and start chatting. If it's dead/empty, start filling it.

I try to open myself up to people as best I can here and on Mastodon just because we're pretty used to the algorithm TM deciding who we talk to or where we engage for a long time now and I don't think we are collectively ready to have non-hostile "discussions" in that we just don't know how to do it.

What's been on your mind? If you don't wanna share here try the casual conversations community. They might be better to receive you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Joining a book and 2 movie clubs was one of the best things I've done in recent years. The book club sadly fizzled cause people didn't have time, but we have a bi-weekly movie club where we pick complex, difficult movies and talk about their themes and such, and a monthly kung-fu movie night where we just hang out and watch silly movies, and they're the highlight of my online week.