the link doesn’t go to an actual thread. Does it still exist?

that makes sense, and it got you out of a bad situation. I don’t know what else to say other than I’m happy for where you’ve gotten to and here’s a hug 🤗

oh my word, it sounds like you’ve been through hell and back. I’m glad you made it out!

I remember reading of the lady who donated her kidney to get boss and then got fired

One thing I’ve found is that people tend to have no chill. I’ve shared some posts with friends that don’t use it and multiple times they’ve responded with “why are they so serious”

Nope, I have lots of friends who have best friends of both genders outside of their partners. If anything, it’s good to have these relationships since you’re not putting everything (and all of your needs) just on your partner. It’s good to be able to spread our relationships and needs around a bit. If anything, if you’re boyfriend was insecure about it, then that’d be an insecurity on his side. It’s healthy to have friendships. It’s not like you two are flirting or getting any romantic or sexual energy from each other (it isn’t always from sex). I give two thumbs up for friends!

i think I was hungry

I wanted a place for the digital nomad and travel niche, so I made it. I’m hoping to have resources like maps, tips, and other things like blogs

check out the communities https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/communities?home_select=local

there’s also [pixelfed](https://pixel/ fed.keyboardvagabobd.com) and mastodon, though it’s been a bit harder to get them as full with content

the thing is, normal was always heading in this direction. Capitalism consolidates power into the hands of a few and it keeps consolidating. It will always yield toward more poverty, though for some at home they can wealthier off the exploitation of others.

I get what you mean, but going back to normal will get you right back here in a few years or decades.

I think that the answer is socialism. But for sure, pretty much nobody believes that anyone should have the wealth and power that our capitalists do.

I had typing class in school, but got better with it by video games. I now use Colemak, but can blind type in qwerty and colemak

I’d like to plug the fediverse servers that I’m hosting for the traveller / digital nomad niche over at keyboard vagabond

https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/

https://mastodon.keyboardvagabond.com/

https://pixelfed.keyboardvagabond.com/

https://blog.keyboardvagabond.com/

SA is a huge digital nomad hotspot. i haven’t been there, but it’s a favorite of a lot of nomads. They’ve all said that it’s fast, reliable, a bit pricey on housing but you can work around it, and hella fun. I’ve never heard anyone complain about it.

I have so e personal and professional cards that also have a qr code on them. It’s been a good way to not get lost in an address book with a thousand names

I’ve seen people on news and other places saying that they can’t send texts with the word “Epstein,” there was also censorship around Israel and ICE videos as well

thanks a bunch! it’s been a fun adventure! 😄

write freely has their own hosted servers (https://read.write.as/), and ghost is a federated platform for monetized blogging (ghost.org).

for write freely, I found the fediverse observer page for write freely (https://writefreely.fediverse.observer/list). I once came across a huge write freely blog, but can’t find it anymore.

on Keyboard Vagabond, I have a Topic set up with different blog communities that I found https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/topic/blogs.

it may also help to search mastodon for #blog and#blogging to find some people and then you can follow them there or on RSS from their main sites.

I don’t know if that actually answers you question, but it’s things I’ve done to find people.

they would be welcome to have a post there!

But for promotion, one of the biggest issues I’ve had while traveling is the online presence. They should have a Google maps entry with the keywords that they want, their website should mention it, as well as their SEO entries.

I’d recommend them have keywords like cowork, nomad, digital nomad, retreat, health and wellness, etc. There are definitely people looking for that vibe when they travel!

A good place to recommend them would be https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/c/coworking_locations

Be sure to include the location and a summary as well to best help them get found, both in piefed and also on search engines ☺️

The same way we did it before those things existed or had taken over. Believe it or not, the internet used to be that way 👴

I try to have 3 places in mind for a change of scenery, and if there’s something going on at at least one spot, that can take the pressure off of talking. i try to sit next to the person, like at a bar top, instead of across because that just feels like a job interview or something.

aside from that, engaging conversation. Probe for interest and if they reciprocate, then you can go a bit further until they don’t or you’re making out.

funny thing though, I started planning some of my outings with friends like I was doing a date. Instead of just going to the bar and “yyyyup”-ing for a couple hours, I try to find a shoe or something going on and then change locations to something else interesting. By the end my buds are commenting about how much fun they had.

so plan the date around interesting things or environments, or just something going on or something to look at. Then just have fun and relax.

Also, I read something from one of the old dating sites where they said that a sushi date is 27% more likely to get a second date. All of my sushi dates have gotten second dates.