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meetup.com offers a large collection of interest groups to join. It probably is less useful for low density areas, and I don't know if they operate outside the
by tasty_freeze 4y ago
meetup.com offers a large collection of interest groups to join. It probably is less useful for low density areas, and I don't know if they operate outside the US. If you live in a large urban area (I'm in Austin) there are literally hundreds of meetup topics. Knitting? Music? Hiking? Books? Psychedelics? Religion? Sports? Investing? Meditation? Learning a language?
There is no guarantee that you'll make a friend there, but the odds are much higher than watching TV at home.
- legerdemain 4y agoI'm a member of 125 Meetup groups at the last count. Most Meetup groups are zombie groups with thousands of members and no events. The Meetup engagement algorithm drives people to keep joining groups and keep RSVPing to events, but very little to encourage repeat attendance or to prune zombie groups and events from your calendar. As a consequence, most groups have tons of inactive "members," and most events have tons of fake "attendees." Even though I'm a "member" in over 100 groups, my Meetup calendar is mostly full of corporate Zoom events that are basically ads.
- tasty_freeze 4y agoI'm sorry to hear that. Maybe I got lucky -- I joined a group ("Let's start a beginners band") and I could see that they had a recent history of meetups. It took only a month or so for the next one, I went, maybe 25 people were there, which is pretty good considering they mostly people don't repeatedly go -- they find some other like-minded people and try to make music happen later.