I know this might be a weird and stupid question, but I’m curious.
Not weird or stupid!
Friends? Absolutely! People may go back and forth on the value of online-only friendships, but you can definitely make friends if you keep a decent back and forth going, no different than other online spaces. Obviously, be aware of the risks (scammers bots), but there’s lot of folks here who’d probably be down for friendship to at least some degree.
Relationships? This I’m a little less certain about - probability seems very low if you’re hetero, slightly higher but still pretty low if not. But who knows?
Don’t neglect meatspace, though (even if it’s kind of a horror show sometimes).
Is it possible? Sure, I guess.
Advisable? AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH no.No. Impossible. Not even Nicole, the Polish chick from Toronto, has responded to my dick pics.
That’s no reason to give up. Post it here, we’ll respond!
Maybe. Depends on what you’re into.
If it’s suicidal depression and mid-2000s mmorpgs, then I’m your guy!
Not sure why you’d want to.
i can see two lemmites being very happy together, going on about how linux is amazing, israeli is evil, capitalism is bad and communism is great, etc etc.
and sharing with each other at the end of the day how many fascists they called out.
it’s easy to be a happy couple if your hatreds align.
Just like MySpace had Tom, joining Lemmy automatically adds me as your friend. Unlike Tom, I cannot be removed. We’re friends forever now.
It’s a worldwide site with a sort of small user base, anything is possible but it seems a long shot compared to going outside or talking to your friends, networking, dating sites, pretty much anything local seems a better chance.
Possible? Sure. Likely? Nah.
I feel this. I heard staments voice when he was recording a video of his cat and was instantly crushing.
Oh really? Were you?
I wish I was that succinct. I got a personalize sonnet from staments 😽. I listened twice to hear the emphasis on “luscious”, very seductive
<3
We’re all a little in love with Stamets, anyway, I think.
Hey hey hey, I’m gonna need you to step OFF my stamets 😤😤
That makes one of us <3
Aw. I hope you will be able to see your contribution here through our eyes, sometime.
You helped make this place chill and fun at a time when many of us were morning Reddit going to shit - and Reddit going to shit was kind of symbolic of many other things going to shit.
And finding you and some others here being great to each-other - that lifted my spirits.
Eh, I do my best with what I can. I’m just not nice to myself lol consider it a gift from my mother
But thank you <3 I hope your best yesterdays are your worst tomorrows <3
I think the ratio is a bit skewed heavily towards 20something guys. So maybe if that’s your thing? Idk I’ve had some good exchanges with folks but that’s about it for me.
I was chatting up a polish girl on here a while ago. Her name was Nicole.
Hmm, whatever happened to that?
Somebody sent around that same template but with the girl’s face replaced with some gorn, and it spooked THE FUCK out of the mods and admins, to the point that sh.itjust.works blocked any community with the string “nicole” in it.
It went away the moment the sub got banned. They were basically feeding the troll.
Maybe, but Lemmy is such a small service that the chances of there being someone using Lemmy, sharing your interests, being compatible with your sexuality, being single, and is somewhere reasonably close to you, is pretty damn low.
sharing your interests, being compatible with your sexuality, being single, being single, and is somewhere reasonably close to you, is pretty damn low.
Unless they’re trans furry and really into Linux.
Do we do meet-ups yet? We don’t seem like going-out types, on average.
But we should start reserving a room at comic-cons, at least.
No. This place is for serious discussion of facts and ideas only. Everybody stop having fun and being friendly.
maybe you should develop a little more?
I mean, one does not ‘find a friend or partner on lemmy’, or anywhere else. Friendship, like love, is something that may happen and that will often not happen but we all need to work for it to maybe become a thing. Friends and partners are not stored somewhere, patiently waiting for us to need/want them ;)
Edit: clarifications.
Friends and partners are not stored somewhere, patiently waiting for us to need/want them ;)
I almost forgot I got a basement full of them.
I like the tone of your response. The last sentence is especially insightful.
Thx, much appreciated. Doing my best which is often not that great (English is not my native language)
back to being alone then, thanks.
back to being alone then, thanks.
Why would that be? It’s just a matter of deciding what one is looking for. Is it a (sex) toy for you to play with? Good for you, but that most probably won’t be a friend/partner (they don’t have battery to power them on will and they have their own needs). Is it a partner/friend? Even better, but don’t hope to find them in the (sex) toy department ;)
i’m just hoping to find good people in the “not awful” department. sex is optional.
There are people like that, you should not lose hope. Those people just don’t advertise themselves like that, and they are not waiting to meet anyone. This just happens when two persons start appreciating discussing with one another. Hence, the necessity to put in some work, and to make oneself available to them too. A few of those persons may even become good friends, with any luck.
Finding/making friends on Lemmy is definitely possible. There are a handful of people I talk to outside of Lemmy every day that I originally met here a couple years ago.
I think it helps tremendously if you can find places to interact with others that are less combative than the news/politics/etc that can dominate the feeds here. If you have personal interests in music, movies, tv, or even just want to have casual conversations, there are plenty of communities for that here. Those places give everyone a chance to “break the ice” on a slightly more personal level that helps develop lasting friendships.
