I hear you. I feel like the internet is kinda hostile nowadays. Most folks are only consuming, and its clear (here for example) that I should mostly not contrib

I hear you. I feel like the internet is kinda hostile nowadays. Most folks are only consuming, and its clear (here for example) that I should mostly not contribute, unless I have something really insightful to say. Is there a place on the internet for personal relations? Not for politics, not for hooking up, not for seeing who has the most informed opinion about something. Just for talking to the same people every day, help them out and be helped. I see some of that on smaller Discord servers. The really odd thing I've been noticing though: that outside (real life) its much easier to expose yourself to that kind of "random world" that the internet felt like in those times. Like, walking in the streets and seeing what people are talking about in bars I can expose myself to more interesting[1] (to me of course) opinions than the front page of the biggest subreddits. But, if you are an introvert like many of us, you probably won't say hello and make new friends that easy. And its not about joining the chess/dance/coding club either, because I don't want to hang out with people just like me. I'd rather hang out with strangers actually. [1] Also, the factor that it is in my city makes this relatable, local, etc. Now that I mention, BBSes were also a local thing.