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Hexbear meet ups? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've gotten to meet a few people from here irl and they were all awesome, I'd love to meet more of our comrades and I expect there's a number of us who feel that way. Not would it be cool to hang out but as much as we wish it were posting isn't praxis however meeting offline makes it much easier to actually accomplish something. My thought was either a sticky thread or new com. People who are down to meet can post their nearest major city and then handle everything else through DMs, that should keep the doxing to a minimum. Anyone else interested in the idea or am I just being dumb?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is not actually true, the vast majority of posters do not join orgs and the vast majority of organizers do not post outside of mainstream social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tiktok).

I joined a local org with 30+ members and none of them have ever even heard of Lemmy before

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'd say it depends on the org. This is a bit uncharitable to all involved but some orgs are described as having the vibe of an IRL reddit meetup (often DSA in my experience). If you go to those ones I bet you'd find a few posters. I also met a few old r/CTH users at a PSL meetup. But yeah if you're just trying to find like-minded people join an org. Shop around to figure out whether you like the vibe, which imo is more important that whether you totally agree with them at this stage of left-wing development in western countries. You should actually look forward to meeting your comrades, not have an "ugh I would rather..." attitude.