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0 pointssfmz1y ago0 comments

If its geotagged, it would not require a priori following of the account, just some kind of location search/notification feed.

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sirobg1y ago· 2 in thread

Oh so you mean that users would post anywhere (Bluesky, X, Mastodon, ...) and I would track these posts and then display them in the appropriate location on meet.hn?

Sounds pretty good! If that's not what you meant, please correct me.

sfmzOP1y ago

This is the best comment about meetups of all time

One thing I found strange about SF is that I never found a group that would do the weekly hang. The weekly hang is a socially porous experience, it has a fixed location and fixed start time but everything else is improvised. Different people could dip in and out, people felt free to bring new friends, people they just started dating, friends from out of town etc. Some people came once and never again, others become regulars. The hallmark of a great weekly hang is that the entire initial cohort gets replaced but the weekly hang still persists.

It's a commitment in time that "busy professionals" ostensibly had no time for which is why I think it was so unpopular in SF but it really killed a big part of the vibe of the city for me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608965

sfmzOP1y ago

That's more or less the idea, the actual mechanism is an implementation detail. You could host the messages yourself, or instruct people to update their hn_bio or RSS feed which will sometimes have messages like this :

hnmeet@present_time@location@duration.

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