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 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.