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[sorcyress]

Many years ago, back before I really understood the full extent of Amanda Palmer's problematic nature, she started a thing on Twitter called "LOFNOTC". It stood for "Losers of Friday Night on Their Computers", and I happened to be there for the first one, as it delightfully spiraled out of control. There was wine, and excitement, and goofing off, and for a moment, all these lost little loners came together and had something more.

I checked in a few more times, but eventually, stopped being quite so much a part of Twitter, and stopped going. It may have been the last consistent web hangout I had --LOFNOTC was post-PieShop, and long since post 42Pub, and...there hasn't been a place since then. Except tonight, I stopped by Tailsteak's livestream, and in some ways...there was quiet melancholy music in the background, and people chatting and goofing off, and art happening. It was a glass of wine away from being 2009 again.

It's a thing I miss. I don't have a core online community anymore, and haven't in aaaaages. I have lots of online people I hang out with at varying points, some of whom know each other, but mostly my interactions are singular. Like the slow, painful, death of livejournal, it's not a thing I really know how to fix. Or, let's get real, I don't even know if it's a thing that should be fixed. The internet is changing, the ways people social are changing (I actually post to Facebook sometimes these days), and I don't even know if there's a space for small group drop-in social, like the Pie Shop used to be.

I don't really have any point to this post. Just meandery bullshit, to try and distract myself from the fact that I'm supposed to be cleaning my room.

~Sor
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Comments

[harena]

I seriously agree. I miss the days of active sluggysquad, sluggymare, the pieshop (a most painful loss, that one), & so on. I have always done so much better conversationally in a chatroom than in a one-on-one IM scenario both in the conversation stuffnthings and the negvox stuffnthings, since I don't have to feel like I have to keep up the convo the entire time and the negvox don't get the chance to tell me the reason isn't talking to me is 'cause i'm not Important Enough to them.

There is no point in this comment, other'n a wee ferret's wistful dreaming to recapture that style of "hanging out" on the internets with people. It is sorely missed.

[squirrelitude]

I'm not familiar with the specific small communities you mention, but some of the IRC channels I hang out in sound similar.