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Excluding, say, here or the fediverse more broadly.

There have been some nice corners of the internet that have somehow kept going along their way that I've enjoyed lurking around like some alien observer. They are the few spaces I dare not pop in and ask, out of fear it would somehow break things.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All the Chaos Computer Events are like a different dimension. You can leave your laptop somewhere unattended and the worst thing that may happen to it, is that someone plugs it in to charge.

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

I heard about CCC all the way in my UK university! Wish we had something that big in the UK. I remember beards, lots of beards!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

EMF Camp is the UK equivalent. A lot smaller, but still 3500 geeks in a field.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well.. beards and dresses. Maybe some cat ears. It’s often very diverse (as in LGTBQ+)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Going by the title it sounded like a place where you can destroy a laptop in different ways - smashing, falls, crush, blender.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

GeoCaching for offline (semi-online). When I learnt about it, it blew my mind. There's literally trillions of hidden 'stashes' all around the world that people have hidden. In bushes, up poles, behind signs, etc. Every city. Fields, forests, everywhere!

In the stashes you'd find anything from a piece of paper to mini figures or a bullet! You write your name on the paper and date it. Then you hide it and go hunting for more using the Geocaching app.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Geocaching is great! I haven't done it actively in a while but occasionally I'll find a cache that someone else must have found and not understood what they had uncovered. I try to find the cache online and then rehide it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you say hide it, do you mean back where you found it or elsewhere? Are there some that encourage you to add/move parts of the caches around from one to another?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Afaik you can swap (you out one thing in and take one thing out). Usually in the same spot, yeah

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Makerspaces/hackerspaces

Basically a bunch of fellow geeks nerds and makers. A few joking comments can spiral into awesome discussions or insane projects.

The biggest bit is just having somewhere you can geek out and have people's eyes light up, rather than glaze over.

On top of this, you gain access to a bunch of awesome tools, as well as people who know how to use them, and often want to teach and share. It varies a lot from space to space, but most have a laser cutter and 3D printers at least.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shout-out to r/TESLore. I remember the exact moment I was hooked: Someone started her comment with the phrase: "We all know what the enatiomorph is, where it comes from, and how it's formed, but..." and I've gleefully been indulging with those other weirdos ever since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also, truestuhl.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll put my vote to Deep Rock Galactic for online. It's a game (that you MUST check out) with one of the most wholesome communities ever. Most people are super nice in the chat and I've made a friend or two (for me that's a lot - I'm extremely picky cause I feel very nice with the amount of friends I have already)

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

I just bought it (this past weekend) and I'm really loving it so far!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

wait till you start the deep dives - it just gets better and better

rock and stone to the bone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is it mainly voice chat? I tend to prefer text chat as I don't like fussing with audio settings nor hearing roughly handled mics (albeit I know you can often mute those players).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mostly play with text chat. Although There’s a β€œfor Rock and Stone!” Emote which seems to be how most people communicate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

rock and stone brother!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it’s mainly text chat but it’s a ton of fun with friends (where i imagine you’d like voice chat)

[–] Coniferous 7 points 1 year ago

Both of mine are offline and involve something in an everyday space that others wouldn't understand the significance of or possibly notice at all

First, the Hash House Harriers, the self-proclaimed "drinking club with a running problem". It's fun seeing chalk marks on pavement and knowing that a hash had recently passed by, even if it's been some time since I've been.

Second, geocaching. Tons and tons of containers hidden around you that you might never see if not actively looking for it. It's always a blast running into another person suspiciously looking about under a bench or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When someone I know who I went to different schools together with invites me to their school (as someone who never liked my own).

[–] otp 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who I went to different schools together with

This is one of the most confusing clauses I've ever read.

What does this mean?

[–] R4sjd1 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Visiting a school that you yourself are not a student at by accompanying someone who is a student at that school. I think the β€œtogether” was not necessary in the strict sense.

I exactly remember that feeling and I haven’t been a student for 15 years now lol It’s indeed a parallel universe experience.

[–] otp 2 points 1 year ago

Ohhh, gotcha. Yeah, the "together" completely threw me off, haha

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I phrased it in the form of an inside metajoke. Often a common dad joke is to name a celebrity and say "I knew Abe Lincoln, we went to different schools together". It's a fancy way of saying "I know them but that's it".

[–] otp 1 points 1 year ago

I've never heard that in my life.

And your dad didn't know Abe Lincoln, so I don't get why it's a fancy way of saying you only just know someone, lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NeoCities always feels like a portal to an older internet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Tell me more?

I see it allows you to create your own site. How is the hosting done? As in who pays?

How do you find other cool sites etc. I like the idea just not sure on all the deets.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hosting is free for users, that much I know (had to chuck something on there for a thing in uni several years ago)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I’ll definitely be looking into this more.

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

Its a free site builder, if you search there is an option to browse and a lot of sites have links to other sites and you can kind of get lost. I'm actually working on my own neocities right now.

https://clubnintendoarchives.neocities.org/

^Thats the first neocities site I found and that introduced me to the idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Neocities came up in another question I asked, and so I looked into it. They have a couple ways they handle funding, via donations or becoming a supporter and subscribing for a little each month.

You may have already looked this up by now, but for anyone else that comes across this and was wondering too, there ya go!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing it's a spin-off of the original GeoCities back in early 2000s which was also mainly for free site hosting.

This seems like where you can browse/search: https://neocities.org/browse

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Offline, go to any jam band concert like dead & co, dopapod, the werks, or dark star orchestra or glitchy bass music concert like Mersiv, Tipper, detox unit, or 3AM. even better, go to a small music festival held on private land (no law enforcement)

I saw the barter system in action, folks just giving away Hallucinogens and pretty rocks, lots of sharing and hugs and general positivity. Even saw one of the homies having an impromptu magic the gathering match on a big flat rock next to a river. They both just happened to bring their decks to the festival.

[–] Corkyskog 1 points 1 year ago

No law Enforcement

Until you realize that although there isn't law enforcement, there certainly is enforcement as you witness a Hells Angel jump off a quad and flatten someone with one punch while just coming up on your trip

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Offline: a martial arts dojo. A bunch of goofballs wearing Japanese undies play fighting and smiling.

Offline: kink spaces. A bunch of goofballs in fancy undies play torturing and smiling.

[–] 257m 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

midnight.pub - Chill place for people to write extremely niche and detailed blog posts.

IRC - Lots of technically competent people who are fun to talk to.

rawtext.club - I haven't joined this because I don't think I would really contribute much but it is a good idea.

Or just Gemini/gopher in general are cool places to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

vogons.org - we're all stuck in the 90's, tinkering with old computers.