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Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Post by foobarchu »

jerlam wrote: post #164
brushfoot wrote: post #73

"Users near you" functionality is sorely needed in online spaces, considering how much interaction has moved online. Reddit has worked around their lack of it to some degree with location-based subreddits like r/AtlFilmmakers. But subreddits are high maintenance, and they isolate content. Plus, the naming conventions aren't standard. Maybe there's r/AtlFilmmakers for filmmakers in Atlanta, but another subreddit for m…

Strava has a feature called Flyby that allows you to find out other Strava users who you ran past (flew by) on your activity. With a single click you could get the other user's entire route, likely including their home (start/finish). After some backlash about safety/privacy, it was disabled on everyone's account and required people to manually opt-in: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/10/strava-flyby-feature.htm... V…

Good gravy that sounds like a stalkers dream

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Post by foobarchu »

dgfitz wrote: post #182
dqv wrote: post #162

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Yeah. It’s highly addictive. I have screentime for “fun apps” set to 30 mins now because it will suck you in for hours if you’re not careful.

I can honestly say I’ve never viewed a single tiktok video, and I intend to keep this true. Fuck that noise.

Are you okay with instagram reels and YouTube shorts, or is it all short form content you object to? Large swaths of tiktok is cross posted to other platforms, so if you use those other ones then chances are you have watched plenty of tiktok content.

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Post by t-3 »

older wrote: post #202
t-3 wrote: post #165

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The secret bunch who pay attention to Africa. It's not exactly shouted from the rooftops in western countries as public opinion is not quite as favorable towards colonialism and patronage as they were 100+ years ago.

I'm more interested to know how this secret bunch of people links all that to arrest of Telegram's CEO (who is a French citizen) in France. Sounds like a regular conspiracy theory and claims like "we all know..." just give more of the same conspiracy vibe.

Yeah, I highly doubt Russian soldiers/mercenaries using Telegram is the main reason France went after Durov, but the conflicts and influence wars between Russia and colonialist powers in Africa is well-known and has been happening for a while.

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Post by jules-jules »

bilsbie wrote: post #131

New 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?

If you build this I will come.

Something like feeding your Reddit username to

https://redditmetis.com/

And suggest other users to chat to based on the analysis

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Post by Svoka »

isaacdaoust wrote: post #195

Notably absent hobby in the article is music. I'm currently working on a website that will function as a "hobby app" for digital music/album collection. https://discollect.app my public profile: https://discollect.app/profile/clo0oz2hw0005fv02qbxn866c

Oh! This is a cool service! Love onboarding experience

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Post by christianqchung »

bradlys wrote: post #208
christianqchung wrote: post #203

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Probably <1% of American men look like Kipchoge. The average runner is just going to be healthier than the average American, not jacked to the point of uncanniness. This is also true for weightlifters.

My point stands. Someone who is not on steroids and is closer in looks to Sam Sulek than Kipchoge will have more success. There’s enough studies out there on this that I shouldn’t have to even be saying this. Most women like strong looking men and not flyweights.

I don't think you read my comment. Not sure what bone you have to pick with running. Weightlifting and cardio are not political parties. I shouldn't have to even be saying this.

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Post by twixfel »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #191
twixfel wrote: post #116

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so how do you encourage everyone except white suprematists to get out more? What does that raising awareness campaign look like? Tbh getting out more is probably more necessary for such people than anyone else.

> so how do you encourage everyone except white suprematists to get out more? Shut down and disperse groups of white supremacists. Amend the right to free assembly to exclude hate groups, because we don't need to tolerate that if we don't want to. And before you say "well who decides what's a ha-" there is a well articulated subjective process for determining that already, and most of the groups that meet the definit…

Problem is assembly could literally be just two guys in a quiet pub sitting at a table having a pint speaking quietly about white supremacy. So your idea of policing people meeting is kind of nonsense and I can't even fathom how you concluded it could possibly work.

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Post by CM30 »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #117
nkingsy wrote: post #54

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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)

It's very much a matter of what topic the forum or Discord server is about to be honest. My experience is that anything particularly tech orientated skews very heavily male, while more arts and crafts esque topics tend to skew more female. So I suspect for many people here (including myself), the communities we're interested in tend to be male dominated simply because tech in general tends to be.

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

IgorPartola wrote: post #11

Sharing a common interest is the best way to meet lots of new people. It creates low stakes interaction opportunities and removes the creep factor (if you are at a meetup for fans of model trains along with like a dozen other people, it’s not weird that you are talking to some of them). Better than any app, go get a hobby in person and get out there to meet people who are into it. Chances are you present yourself way…

> Chances are you present yourself way better in the real world vs online.

This depends a lot on the person.

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Post by bradlys »

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #201
bradlys wrote: post #79

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> My suggestion is get a hobby that you explicitly are interested in, but don't go in with an expectation that you'll find someone, or make that your primary goal. The issue here is that you need to have hobbies that are explicitly good for finding partners. For instance, I love riding motorcycles. I am happy to do group oriented aspects of the hobby like track days or group rides, etc. The amount of women in that ac…

What I find interesting is that it seems like the vast majority of hobbies are male dominated, maybe this is not true and a bias of my world view. All sports are male dominated to the point where female only activities are sanctioned, anything around collecting, games (board games and video games), cars/motorsports, woodworking, metalworking. The only hobbies I know of that are female dominated is Yoga and crafts. Al…

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