I liked OkCupid’s question system, but since that place has become unusable there is no good way of meeting people online without investing considerable effort sifting through discord servers and whatnot. I had high hopes for Matrix, but Matrix turned out to have a fair share of rooms full of really mentally ill people set on evading moderation.
I’m not talking about romantic or sexual dating, that is not the aim. So far I’ve only met one person online who proved to be a consistent friend.
The whole conundrum is so troubling to me that I have started thinking about building a crude matching algorithm and using that for a FLOSS chatting site that doesn’t have pictures, bios, searchable profiles and all that jazz. Just: ‘yes’/‘no’ and 6 pt scale questions. Maybe also a contrast mode to discover radically different people. The biggest obstacle here would be certain legal questions (especially around liability.)
Before I start doing that I want to ask if anyone here knows of a decent site to meet people.
Online hobby communities. So if your into gaming/modding, join some discords or whatever and then eventually you can translate to irl. Especially if you live near a big city/population.
Also, my wife 5 years ago made about 5 new friends on Bumble with friend feature thing. Still hang out with two of them.
Acespace is interesting
I’m trying it out. It’s pretty decent.
The main feed thing is kind of interesting, I’m not very familiar with a lot of these sites but it’s cool it’s got a social aspect to it That’s not just about getting laid or something.
Hop on IRC.
This is like saying “hop on Firefox” once you have the app, where do you go?
Meetup.com is going strong. Lots of groups even in my relatively unpopular area
Meetup has recently doubled their prices to run a group, and it’s definitely impacting groups that I’m in. It’s not unusual for organizers to ask for $10-15 from attendees to cover these high organizer subscription costs.
It also feels excessively greedy that they have locked more features behind a user subscription.
Yeah, I was about to say: meetup is pretty much dead. I live in an area of 350k people, and I think there is one for hiking and one for atheism (which makes no sense to me, like, at all. What are you going to do? Talk about what you don’t believe in?)
What are you going to do? Talk about what you don’t believe in?
Some groups organize to try and keep religion beliefs out of Governs and law making or to give support to atheists that come from religious background.
