• OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know anyone IRL that uses the fediverse. They just use everything else and then complain it’s all owned by billionaires

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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    Nope, but I have had the thought that small-scale regional meet-ups could be fun.

    On the one hand, smaller old-school forums do/did that sometimes and it can be really cool, if thinking in the spirit of the old internet.

    ON THE OTHER HAND, I remember the infamous pictures from the Reddit meetup and good God, maybe not?

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      ON THE OTHER HAND, I remember the infamous pictures from the Reddit meetup and good God, maybe not?

      you can’t say that and then not link the pictures!

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        This is the one I was thinking of, but there are several interesting ones. I guess I’m being an asshole, maybe they’re all awesome. They certainly seem to be smiling and having fun, so I’m just really the dick here. But here’s the picture. Fuck, it is just…a lot. I don’t know. NSFW.

        spoiler

        • irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee
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          lots of questions:

          • Why are they flashing the camera
          • What is the guy in the middle wearing
          • When was this
          • Why does only like, one guy have normal shoes
          • Why is literally every guy there shirtless

          I could go on.

        • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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          well you have a point, it’s certainly weird. they are smiling, ok, but why would you do that which a lot of them are doing

          • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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            I’m really torn. On the one hand, maybe I would be smiling!? I don’t know what happened! Part of me thinks, “I’ll have some of whatever they’re having!”

            But then I don’t strongly feel, “THOSE are my people!” and I fear I’d be one of those faces nervously smiling(?) in the shadows at the back of the group. Also I have a strong sense of smell and I don’t know if I want to roll those dice.

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    Sadly no. Ive recommended the fediverse to a couple dudes, one of them is too much of a normie to care (i will lecture him again soon xD) and the other doesnt like the fediverse😐 chose bsky instead of mastodon… (oh and a third guy just said fuck u and fuck all this stuff alltogether, he was fed up with me complaining ab big tech lmaooo at least he uses matrix to chat w me now)

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    I know one guy, but I know him from a IRC (now Matric) channel, but we are offline friends too and visited each other often.