I really do enjoy fedi a lot, although it can be difficult to get a good sense of connection to community sometimes -- this has been my experience with basically all social media. I never really understood how people were able to make so many online friends.
Maybe this is a common experience on fedi, or maybe some of y'all just wanna do something fun. In either case, I'm curious to know if anyone might be interested in some kind of fedi penpal thing? You pick a penpal or two (probably based on shared interests or something like that) and it gives you a social excuse to make a new online friend who you might see pop up in different places on Mastodon.
Maybe you start sending each other emails about how your days have been going, attaching your next move to your long-form chess game at the end of each note. Maybe you just text each other with Mastodon's built-in DMs, or over Signal or something. Maybe you start tagging each other in public threads. You might share your different little projects with each other, like photography, programming, art, etc.
Anyways, I'm curious if this would be the type of thing anyone on here would possibly be interested in if I made something for it?
I've been slightly inspired by how well the https://fedilearns.fyi/ site took off that @inherentlee built, figured I might try my hand at a slightly less ambitious community-building effort of my own. Not sure if this would be best suited to a website necessarily -- maybe a fedigroup would be nice? -- but anyways, it'll be something! :)
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