Does Lemmy or PieFed have anything similar to the Reddit R4R communities who want to connect people in a local area for friendship? And are there anything like the dating subreddits? Or even the cheater ones? Or like marriedbutchatting?
Does Lemmy or PieFed have anything similar to the Reddit R4R communities who want to connect people in a local area for friendship? And are there anything like the dating subreddits? Or even the cheater ones? Or like marriedbutchatting?
I hadn’t really used Reddit much until fairly recently if anything other than checking some art subreddits or find some answers. I didn’t even know there were porn on there, shows how little I explored it. There’s a bunch of terminology that is just expected users know without any sort of glossary. One of those was R4R, which I had to Google.
I like the idea behind a community (I assume that is what c/ stands for) which is focused on connecting people in specific local areas, be it to organise D&D tournaments, chess matches or as is my interest, photo meetups, exercise, cycling walking groups.
But the same applies to dating. I didn’t know those existed on Reddit either until recently, as Reddit seems ill-suited for it. But let’s say a singles event around a pub meetup, movie meetup, exercise meetup or whatever.
From looking superficially, it seems the R4R<Location> subreddits have become for hookups, which is ok if separated from the other things.
So for instance if I was to start a community for say a local calisthenics community for Sydney where I’m from, what might you call it? Is there a code word like R4R<location> that people could search for, or are there no conventions yet?
I mean, I feel like R4R communities never work out very well because reddit/lemmy/piefed posts are, by their nature, ephemeral. It is weird to find or respond to a post more than a few hours old, so to find your person/people, it takes quite a bit of luck for you to post, the within a few hours someone looking for what you are offering in the same city where you live happens to check the sub/comm.
Otoh, if you start /c/SydneyCalisthnics, it will probably look like a pretty dead community for quite a while, which will drive people away.
Instead, I think a good place to start would be a weekly post in /c/Sydney detailing various events/meetups/etc that week, where regular events are in the post header, and then people can comment to tell people about their own events or meetups they want to promote.
The fact that the Lemmmy/PieFed community (not sure what the collective term is) is still small is OK, since you have to start somewhere; it’s a catch-22, if there isn’t a community, they won’t come, and hence you don’t build a community. So starting something local so when they come looking they will have somewhere to post their interests is a start.