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What communities, online or offline, have made you feel most like you've entered/found a parallel dimension in a positive way? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Excluding, say, here or the fediverse more broadly.

There have been some nice corners of the internet that have somehow kept going along their way that I've enjoyed lurking around like some alien observer. They are the few spaces I dare not pop in and ask, out of fear it would somehow break things.

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When someone I know who I went to different schools together with invites me to their school (as someone who never liked my own).

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

who I went to different schools together with

This is one of the most confusing clauses I've ever read.

What does this mean?

[–] R4sjd1@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Visiting a school that you yourself are not a student at by accompanying someone who is a student at that school. I think the “together” was not necessary in the strict sense.

I exactly remember that feeling and I haven’t been a student for 15 years now lol It’s indeed a parallel universe experience.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Ohhh, gotcha. Yeah, the "together" completely threw me off, haha

Thanks!

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I phrased it in the form of an inside metajoke. Often a common dad joke is to name a celebrity and say "I knew Abe Lincoln, we went to different schools together". It's a fancy way of saying "I know them but that's it".

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I've never heard that in my life.

And your dad didn't know Abe Lincoln, so I don't get why it's a fancy way of saying you only just know someone, lol