When you all are talking about meeting people online, are you guys able to form like, real friendships with them? By which I mean, you Zoom once a week or so, share your actual emotions and daily struggles, and do virtual activities together. I have only two relationships like that right now and I want more, but both of those people I met in-person pre-pandemic. Are you able to build friendships like this purely online? I unfortunately can't socialize IRL due to long covid.
i have online friends i've known for over 5 years and i love them as much as i love the few irl friends i have. and yeah, i do pretty much all of that with them, but lately the lack of physical contact has gotten to me a bit
It was easier in the old days, back when forums were niche communities rather than... Reddit. You got to know everyone you posted with because there were only so many of you and everyone had some sort of graphic signature at the ends of their posts so you'd quickly learn to tell people apart. You weren't so worried about opsec because you were mostly talking about anime buddy icons or something inane like that. Eventually the conversations would move to AIM and Skype, and there would always be weird interpersonal drama mixed into the forum posts as a result.
I just don't really know where you find that anymore. I miss the old internet, though.
When you all are talking about meeting people online, are you guys able to form like, real friendships with them? By which I mean, you Zoom once a week or so, share your actual emotions and daily struggles, and do virtual activities together. I have only two relationships like that right now and I want more, but both of those people I met in-person pre-pandemic. Are you able to build friendships like this purely online? I unfortunately can't socialize IRL due to long covid.
i have online friends i've known for over 5 years and i love them as much as i love the few irl friends i have. and yeah, i do pretty much all of that with them, but lately the lack of physical contact has gotten to me a bit
It was easier in the old days, back when forums were niche communities rather than... Reddit. You got to know everyone you posted with because there were only so many of you and everyone had some sort of graphic signature at the ends of their posts so you'd quickly learn to tell people apart. You weren't so worried about opsec because you were mostly talking about anime buddy icons or something inane like that. Eventually the conversations would move to AIM and Skype, and there would always be weird interpersonal drama mixed into the forum posts as a result.
I just don't really know where you find that anymore. I miss the old internet, though.
It's much harder to make friends on Hexbear because most of us are just bots posting from the same basement server in the Lubyanka building.
Get a load of this guy not posting from Xinjiang :xinternet:
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