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It has to have happened at least a few times, right?
I have a crush on dang but it hasn't gone anywhere yet
I get a new throwaway banned every week in the hopes that he notices me.
Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
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#142Anyone wanting to get a feel for unintended uses of a product should go look at google map reviews of locations in India. It is fascinating and ingenious.
Howso? I took a peek around New Delhi and didn’t notice anything
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#143New simple “social network” idea: Paste in a list of your interests (maybe use a list of subreddits you’re subscribed to, or you X inferred interest list) And it will suggest people to chat with ranked by most common interests. Could be a weekend project. Anyone want to team up?
I think you invented facebook
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The thing about Letterboxd is there isn’t a ‘central town square’ like there is on X; it’s a very single-channel conversation,” The problem with Letterboxd that it's gamified and there is an incredible amount of noise and it's getting worse. Top reviews are all just copy paste like baits. "Me when watching a Ghibli film :cryingemoji:" 20k likes "Yes I'd let Ethan Hawke visit me every single night" 10k likes etc It's…
I’m not seeing what’s so bad about the popular reviews. I guess my one complaint would be that no one is writing reviews and so they should stop calling it reviews when they’re really tweets about movies, but I think if Letterboxd were actually 100% in-depth reviews I’d log off immediately. Usually people writing a short quip about a weird/funny thing they noticed is way more enlightening than trying to go through so…
Letterboxd advertised itself as "Goodreads for film" yet here we are.
We still don't have a Goodreads for film
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> People who go to bars specifically just to "pick up" are creepy. What does that mean?
That a lot of people go to bars to hang out with their friends, or especially hang out with their friends + meet some new friends of friends. And it's kind of weird to just go to a bar, alone, and try and find other lonely people to fuck for a single night. But hey, that's what some people are looking for.
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#146Anecdotally run clubs are the dance halls of today (i.e. go to meet women)
I'm wonder what the appeal is of meeting with strangers for the purpose of running.
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especially good when that common activity isn't: we're both drinking at this bar
Easiest way to meet someone is for them to be a friend of a friend. I rarely date someone outside my extended circle even if I was trying to. We inevitably happen to know someone in common. That said, bars are a great way to expand that circle. Dating is just one aspect of socializing. People who go to bars specifically just to "pick up" are creepy.
> Easiest way to meet someone is for them to be a friend of a friend
That assumes your friends have friends to introduce you too. Mine almost never have.
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If you think dating apps skew male…
All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated. I strongly believe in the autism as extreme male brain hypothesis for this reason. Discord especially is such a sausage fest. Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests)
Weirdly enough old-school chat forums were not all that bad in terms of male to female ration. Back in the late 90s early 2000s I lived in an apartment with two roommates. They spend A LOT of their free time on chat forums and we'd frequently host parties for their friends from the chats. Those where pretty close to 50/50, maybe 60/40.
At that time anonymous online chats seemed to have little issue attracting young women.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> People who go to bars specifically just to "pick up" are creepy. What does that mean?
That a lot of people go to bars to hang out with their friends, or especially hang out with their friends + meet some new friends of friends. And it's kind of weird to just go to a bar, alone, and try and find other lonely people to fuck for a single night. But hey, that's what some people are looking for.
you gotta love this idea that you're a creep if you're alone. Only show up if you already have friends. So if you have no friends there's no way to get any because you're a creep if you're alone
we need a new woke meme to shame people who shit on people who don't have friends