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Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

bradlys wrote: post #220
__turbobrew__ wrote: post #201

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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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Yea that seems to agree with my general feeling. Yoga is the one outlier.

It fits my experience as well since I do practice yoga and am commonly the only male. Im married though so I go there to fix my broken body, not to pick up women.

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Post by dragonwriter »

__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…

> it seems like the vast majority of hobbies are male dominated, maybe this is not true and a bias of my world view.

I think it is pretty strongly the latter.

> All sports are male dominated to the point where female only activities are sanctioned

No, they aren't, and gender-specific sporting activites are not because the activities are, as hobbies, male dominated.

> The only hobbies I know of that are female dominated is Yoga and crafts. All the others are more evenly spilt between the genders (like book clubs, dancing, cooking, gardening).

Pretty sure that most of the things you list as "more evenly split" are pretty female heavy. Dancing certainly is, ranging between female-heavy in the forms which would ideally be balanced (most partner dancing -- particularly things like amateur ballroom competition; male amateur comp partners are always in high demand), to wildly female dominated where balance matters less, to, well, pole.

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Post by shepherdjerred »

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…

Strava has features to make this safer, e.g. allowing you to hide the first n meters of an activity, though a dedicated individual could eventually determine your route.

Honestly, though, there are easier ways to determine where you live and your routine, e.g. address books + parking a car outside of your house & observing.

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Post by tiznow »

SunlitCat wrote: post #57
mhh__ wrote: post #28

Anecdotally run clubs are the dance halls of today (i.e. go to meet women)

Actually many sport activities seem to be largely women based, which kinda says much about men not really caring about their health. :)

It probably says more about how men socialize tbh. And we know that fewer and fewer men are "having fun" in the dating world, which extends to antisocial behaviors like for example, not joining a run club because of perceived awkwardness.

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Post by tiznow »

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.

do you think that run clubs are full of flyweights or Olympic distance runners?

you'd have a point if half these run clubs weren't full of weightlifters trying to get women by talking to them on a 2-miler

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Post by dgfitz »

foobarchu wrote: post #212
dgfitz wrote: post #182

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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.

No, this is my only form of social media beyond some group friend chats. I slap ”Reddit” on the end of searches sometimes if that counts for anything.

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Post by moi2388 »

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.

Haha alright. Easy there. I am not a conspiracy theorist at all, nor is it ‘a bunch of secret people’.

It’s well documented that France is fighting with Wagner in their former colonies, as well as Russia undermining their influence there.

It’s also well documented that Wagner and Russian troops mainly use Telegram for communication, same as in Ukraine. Again, well documented.

And these messages are stored on Russian Telegram services.

Telegram was completely fine to use in France, until Wagner started causing issues in Africa and then it suddenly became a problem.

But we’ll see what happens with the court case.

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Post by Teever »

NeoTar wrote: post #198
nox101 wrote: post #150

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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

There’s a difference between going to a bar alone, and going alone with the sole intention to find a one-night-stand. It’s the latter people find creepy.

Where do you think people should go to find a one night stand?

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Post by walthamstow »

ramon156 wrote: post #200
Der_Einzige wrote: post #111

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Uhh, one of them bashes the skull of the other in when they meet up. Blunt force trauma is not good for mental health.

Yeah and it's also not part of socializing. This is a nothing burger

While I agree that even racists need irl socialisation, I strongly disagree that violence is never a part of socialising. See soccer hooliganism for a prime example.

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Post by okwhateverdude »

theChaparral wrote: post #120
alx_the_new_guy wrote: post #51

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Garmin Connect is actually fairly decent. Tracks activities (also sleep, which I find pretty useful), fairly detailed stats, little to none social features and a little gamification with challenges and achievements. Also the watch reminds you to move from time to time. Komoot is great for planning of "trips" and "stealing" other people's routes. I've done couple of them and you kind of never know what you're gonna se…

Garmin connect also has segment feature. Might have to set it up on the website, not sure.

It is default, but unless your activities are public, your data isn't included. It will still tell you where your recorded activity would rank (and a CTA to change the privacy). I have a couple of somewhat popular segments I ride. I try to stay in the top 100.
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