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If I understand your suggestion correctly, it would require people to already be following the account that's tweeting this. Also, it would probably require cr

by sirobg 2y ago

If I understand your suggestion correctly, it would require people to already be following the account that's tweeting this. Also, it would probably require cross posting on Bluesky/Mastodon as from my experience with meet.hn user base, a significant % is not on X anymore (?).

sfmz 2y ago
If its geotagged, it would not require a priori following of the account, just some kind of location search/notification feed.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Oh so you mean that users would post anywhere (Bluesky, X, Mastodon, ...) and I would track these posts and then display them in the appropriate location on meet.hn? Sounds pretty good! If that's not what you meant, please correct me.
  - sfmz 2y ago
    That's more or less the idea, the actual mechanism is an implementation detail. You could host the messages yourself, or instruct people to update their hn_bio or RSS feed which will sometimes have messages like this : hnmeet@present_time@location@duration.
  - sfmz 2y ago
    This is the best comment about meetups of all time One thing I found strange about SF is that I never found a group that would do the weekly hang. The weekly hang is a socially porous experience, it has a fixed location and fixed start time but everything else is improvised. Different people could dip in and out, people felt free to bring new friends, people they just started dating, friends from out of town etc. Some people came once and never again, others become regulars. The hallmark of a great weekly hang is that the entire initial cohort gets replaced but the weekly hang still persists. It's a commitment in time that "busy professionals" ostensibly had no time for which is why I think it was so unpopular in SF but it really killed a big part of the vibe of the city for me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608965
nottorp 2y ago
> is not on X anymore Or never was on X :) Edit: funny enough, the only HN user that registered for my city has X as a social profile. Guess I'll never know more. Edit 2: tbh why would it be compulsory to have a profile on some social networking thing?
- sirobg 2y ago
  > why would it be compulsory to have a profile on some social networking thing? It's not! In fact you have several other options if you prefer.

by sirobg 2y ago

sfmz 2y ago

If its geotagged, it would not require a priori following of the account, just some kind of location search/notification feed.

sirobg 2y ago
Oh so you mean that users would post anywhere (Bluesky, X, Mastodon, ...) and I would track these posts and then display them in the appropriate location on meet.hn? Sounds pretty good! If that's not what you meant, please correct me.
- sfmz 2y ago
  That's more or less the idea, the actual mechanism is an implementation detail. You could host the messages yourself, or instruct people to update their hn_bio or RSS feed which will sometimes have messages like this : hnmeet@present_time@location@duration.
- sfmz 2y ago
  This is the best comment about meetups of all time One thing I found strange about SF is that I never found a group that would do the weekly hang. The weekly hang is a socially porous experience, it has a fixed location and fixed start time but everything else is improvised. Different people could dip in and out, people felt free to bring new friends, people they just started dating, friends from out of town etc. Some people came once and never again, others become regulars. The hallmark of a great weekly hang is that the entire initial cohort gets replaced but the weekly hang still persists. It's a commitment in time that "busy professionals" ostensibly had no time for which is why I think it was so unpopular in SF but it really killed a big part of the vibe of the city for me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608965

nottorp 2y ago

> is not on X anymore Or never was on X :) Edit: funny enough, the only HN user that registered for my city has X as a social profile. Guess I'll never know more. Edit 2: tbh why would it be compulsory to have a profile on some social networking thing?

sirobg 2y ago
> why would it be compulsory to have a profile on some social networking thing? It's not! In fact you have several other options if you prefer.