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?

  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world
    291·
    11 hours ago

    Whatever you do, steer clear of meetup.com - all of their social activities on there now are scientologists thinly veiling their seminars as get-togethers.

    • Waldelfe@feddit.org
      1·
      19 minutes ago

      That’s not true everywhere, my city has a pretty good meetup scene for various hobbies. However the amount of people who sell their useless courses as “meetup, but I will ask for a 20€ fee from everyone” or shady “we will talk about investing/crypto…” groups has gone up.

    • chingadera@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 hours ago

      How does that even work lol

      “What do you guys wanna do? Actually I know, let’s check out this building” “no you should really check out this building” “get in the fucking building”

      “Guys I wanna leave”

      “Okay but $50 and we will call your phone for eternity”