There's things like https://www.meetup.com/ but honestly I haven't found any. The dead internet theory seems true. I block reddit, facebook, x, etc in /etc/hosts - Search top 100 websites by traffic and see what's really going on and who owns what..
I've been on the lookout for one. Wish there was a cool one. I go out and volunteer for sanity.
The issue is, the big platforms are where everybody else is. To them, the internet IS facebook, insta, X, etc..
I know this will sound weird but I found plenty of connections thanks to my blog: by writing about things I find interesting, by encouraging people to connect via email, and by emailing people whose writing I found interesting. There’s plenty of good humanity still out there, but it requires effort and it’s hard to find.
Nice. I have a blog, but, I never expect I'll have any readers. Good to know there's good humanity out there online, I see it in the real world. Digitally it's really overshadowed by a mainstream, paywalled, everything is a service and costs money.
I'm always checking out the blogs I find on here though. I should interact more with them.
1. Can you send me your blog? If you don’t want to post it here my email is on my profile. I’m always interested in reading other people’s blogs[0]
2. I think it’s a matter of being proactive. I treat blog-to-blog interactions the same way I treat person-to-person interactions. If you want the connection to happen you have to be willing to act. Which is why I often send emails, share thoughts on what they wrote, maybe share a link to something they might find interesting based on what they write about. More often than not, people with public personal blogs want to interact with others.
I've been on the lookout for one. Wish there was a cool one. I go out and volunteer for sanity.
The issue is, the big platforms are where everybody else is. To them, the internet IS facebook, insta, X, etc..
To us, it's something more.