Through that I found a network of people in my area doing niche things on fediverse and other platforms, theres things near me for like coding bootcamp meetup that is a professional networking event basically, and another that is a group of tech related groups that basically function as a local city think tank for improving the area, a couple of these actually but the others I only just recently learned about.
Through stuff like this I found some people running for senate which makes sense in hindsight but was super surprising.
I think meetup is still pretty full in general of groups of old people doing hikes and thst sort of thing though lol but it got me on the path of finding some niches which I had no idea could exist but now I know exist in most cities if we look for them.
If I recall there are a couple meetup-like fediverse platforms popping up now, one of them is actually made by one of the people I found through these irl channels.
I would remind everyone again to be the change we want to see in the world except I haven’t really done this myself so thats hypocritical lol
I’m not in a huge city either so I’d expect even more in a actually big city.
Real talk, I love the idea of being part of the Lemmy contingent that ‘crashes’ (see: participates respectfully in) local reddit meetups.
Not a huge board game guy though, which is the most established one in my neck of the woods…
What about meetup.com or other similar websites?
Through that I found a network of people in my area doing niche things on fediverse and other platforms, theres things near me for like coding bootcamp meetup that is a professional networking event basically, and another that is a group of tech related groups that basically function as a local city think tank for improving the area, a couple of these actually but the others I only just recently learned about.
Through stuff like this I found some people running for senate which makes sense in hindsight but was super surprising.
I think meetup is still pretty full in general of groups of old people doing hikes and thst sort of thing though lol but it got me on the path of finding some niches which I had no idea could exist but now I know exist in most cities if we look for them.
If I recall there are a couple meetup-like fediverse platforms popping up now, one of them is actually made by one of the people I found through these irl channels.
I would remind everyone again to be the change we want to see in the world except I haven’t really done this myself so thats hypocritical lol
I’m not in a huge city either so I’d expect even more in a actually big city.