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?

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Yeah I guess if you’re into this weird stuff or you’re a furry, but again, none of those are IRL, and that’s what’s being debated, since the guy I’m replying to specifically said “IRL” as opposed to OP asking how to meet people online. Please learn to read.

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      14 hours ago

      These are all outside, IRL. All of the things I just mentioned are where the schedules are posted…

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        2 hours ago

        They’re not.

        They are literally on a website meetup.com… you’re finding people ONLINE to then meet IRL. It’s not the same as meeting people IRL, same as how online dating is still online dating even though you meet the person IRL, because you met them online on the dating apps or whatever.

        Are you a sign of things to come with people using chatbots instead of thinking?