• Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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    1 day ago

    Meet people online via shared interests. I’m not one to tout Reddit, but really engaging in niche communities there gives you wide exposure specifically targeted. Don’t expect immediate results, but it is a valid method.

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      16 hours ago

      Nope, then you get people complaining that “this is not a dating spot”.

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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        15 hours ago

        I mean, tell that to my ex-fiancee where it took us a year to get engaged after meeting on Reddit. Then Covid hit and we couldn’t meet. We still talk, years later, but now we’re in “old friends” mode.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah … I appreciate the effort but I don’t think that’s a real answer.

      I don’t want to date half way across the country or world … or slide into other people’s DMs (which is something girls ALSO complain about dudes doing).

      At that point if the answer is “someone’s going to be possibly uncomfortable anyways” I’m better off just doing the cold approach where I can at least read body language.

      Not to mention there are a ton of elements of attraction that just don’t work on a forum.