I am not joking when I say that I thinked for hours about how do people find each other in 2025.
Currently, the world is in very weird state. People online are either using social video platforms or they are reading news or lurking in online forums in it’s different shapes and forms.
Most chat platforms that I know had shut down and most alt social platforms are almost dead. Even Hackernews had started to see a lower amount of comments compared to previous years.
I want a serious answer, how should I find people online to talk to about anything really other than politics?
Or you’ll just be alone with your cats forever because you no longer leave the house, but like it’s cool because you’re fine being alone.
Would still be neat to find a partner, though, but the likelihood she shows up at my house is pretty slim. Maybe I should order more doordash…
I never leave the house and people are constantly messaging me online and trying to be friends in a lot of cases.
The hack is to be useful to people. Then you’ll have friends even if you don’t leave the house.
That seems quite dependent on the online environments and kind of useful then. Or is missing some other context.
I don’t receive any direct messages even when quite connected or in communities and even when being useful or potentially useful and continuously contributing foss.
When you find yourself, it won’t be in your house. That’s hiding from yourself.
I’m what way is that hiding from yourself?
From a metaphysical point of view, you and the rest of existence are reflections of each other, thus, the rest of the existence is not separate from you and is a part of yourself, for without it, you would not be who you are now, nor would it be what it is without you.
Knowing this, we can look at Plato’s allegory of the cave. Staying inside restricts you to a limited view of yourself, and an online one is even more limiting because it reflects a distorted truth from others suffering the same fate. How can you possibly know who you are from such a limited scope?
Temet nosce. It means “know thyself”. You should do everything in your power, to the very best of your ability, to see this through. Otherwise, you’re still in the cave.