I met up with someone from r/cth once, during the before times. I believe I made a comment with my location and he reached out to me, it was after Soleimani was killed and we picketed outside outside city hall with antiwar signs with the college group he was a part of. He seemed alright, but that was the extent of our contact. I felt a little awkward but that's how I usually feel so :shrug-outta-hecks:

Meeting someone off Hexbear now seems like it'd be a pretty different experience because of how much things have changed, both IRL and online with this community being smaller and more tight-knit than the sub was. But I think in general, it's a little bit of a crapshoot because different people get different things out of an online community, and sometimes people are pretty different IRL compared to online. I think I'd probably do it and just try to manage expectations and see it as meeting someone who happens to have the same niche interest as me. That is, assuming I'm feeling social, taking precautions, not getting bad vibes, etc. I'm pretty lax about opsec tbh tho.