[d--b]

Just thinking out loud:

I think that the sense of loneliness comes from asynchronous communication.

I have used IRC/discord for - oh god I am so old - 30 years. And it's a place where you _don't_ feel lonely. There is always someone to talk to, and in most places, people are really nice. Second Life also was like that. You can easily make actual friends there.

Asynchronous social communication feels very differently. I don't exactly know the reasons for this, people will say it's because FOMO, or over-curating their lives, or the algorithms, or whatever, but deeply I think it's just the fact that it isn't spontaneous.

[YT-Main]

That really makes a lot of sense and I guess that's why voice channels and things are so popular, I guess I did not communicate the platform as well as I could have because by social media I meant that it was more so a platform where you go to events first and then stay in contact with the people you meet there and only people that are into the same events as you.

It started as a sort of spontaneous event discovery tool because I remember when first moving to a new city discovering where to go and do stuff was quite daunting while everyone seemed to know each other already.

I don't want another platform where you are just glued to a phone all day because that just makes it worse.

[volkk]

that's a good point, IRC back when I played CS1.6 was so fun to use. And if i think back to as recently as when I actively used facebook (in like 2012), the fun part was actively chatting with people randomly over messenger that were online