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?
Bump. Not sure if that still works like in older forum spaces but worth a shot… also sorry if that’s against the rules. Not sure tbh
Bump works at any forum, it will never cease to exist.
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
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.
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.
I want a community for the Game Haste :c
You did it. Count me among the folks who would reply to you.
Hi what do you want to talk about? Im down to chat.
I DM’d you.
me too, if you want one more
Im mildly interested
well, would you be interested in befriending me?
Sure
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.
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.
Fable has book clubs, quite a lot of them. You might like to check them out
Sorry, Fable? I’m not familiar with that.
It’s a reading tracker and social book site. http://fable.co/
Neat, I’ll check that out, thanks!
Edit: Ugh, it looks like all of the book clubs that are tagged as ‘sci-fi’ are actually ‘sci-fi/fantasy’ (or sometimes sci-fi/fantasy/historical/romance, which makes no sense) which is not what I’m looking for. Do you happen to know of any that are pure sci-fi? Preferably ones that focus on big-idea sci-fi like Greg Egan or Peter Watts?
not sure, sorry. You can always start your own :>
Meh, fair enough.
I might be open to joining an online book club. Any suggestions. I just finished reading The Cruel Prince and currently reading the wicked king from Folk of the air series by Holly Black.
Find a discord server with some folks you share interests with and talk to them. I joined a ~300-person gaming/tabletop community a couple years ago and while I don’t have any really close friends among them, they’re great to chat and hang out and play games with. I’ve taken to spending the last couple hours of most days just hanging out in voice with people and shooting the shit, it’s great.
If you wanna emphasize online then there are video games. Csgo and tf2 for example have causal lobbies and community servers where people just chill and chat. Vrchat is made for chatting. Discord is huge, any subject you’re interested in politics, religion, just chatting you’ll find it.
When you find the answer, let me know… I’ve no idea. Been looking around my area for meetup events, other events, looked for LAN parties or tournaments in my area—and I can’t find anything anymore. The pandemic closed so much crap that might’ve been around before but now there’s like legit nothing. Used to be a part of a few Discord servers but only worth it really when they’re small but I keep seeing them close down due to drama. I don’t like getting into fandoms and I don’t want to make my hobby my life—I have other things I like doing. Like you op, idk how tf I’m supposed to meet people let alone a potential partner while a lot of the things I like don’t seem to harbor accessible spaces…
I met three women on Twitter between 2010 and 2016. But really, almost all the people I know in my city I met via the one schoolfriend I actually knew when I moved here. I now have my own friends, but they’re basically all within 6 steps of separation away from him, even if he doesn’t know them himself
