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xkcd #3128: Thread Meeting

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Hey, so did you ever finish your video series about Cassie and the caterpillar morph? I loved the first three, but never ... no, sorry, I get it, this isn't the place. Sorry! Sorry.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3128/

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Years ago, in the scuba subreddit, I posted some pictures of some gear sets we had in a glass case in our shop we'd recovered along with the bodies of their divers in a local cave. It's our warning not to fuck around with cave diving without the proper gear and training.

Another person in the sub started chatting about some other interesting memorabilia I'd put up in the shop, and it was clear he was one of my divemasters.

So he and I suddenly knew each other's reddit handles, and turned out our paths had crossed in several other niche subs, and we realized how many hobbies we didn't even realize we shared despite hanging out weekly at the shop.

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope none of you have a habit of commenting on porn threads, because that would surely be an uncanny way of finding out eachother's kinks

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah - it was boring stuff like 3d printing, guns, and PC building.

We're both gear nerds.

[–] powerofm@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

one of these things is not like the others

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, scuba diving is completely different.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

A mechanical thing with interchangeable parts where nerds discuss the performance, compare, and customize them.

The "why" someone is into a thing, imo, is more important than the thing, usually.

[–] Signtist@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

I specifically use my normal username and profile pic as a challenge to people. Oh, you want to laugh about how you saw me in a thread discussing a fetish porn game? Care to explain what you were doing there? Okay, now, give me your list of favorites.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's why I love forum like Lemmy. You can get really deep on single topics that interest you. It's funny to click on a person though because you can see their odd interests. The best is when someone has porn and normal comments on one account. Really full transparency

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude who has energy for multiple accounts these days

[–] dumples@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy is great since all the NSFW is in 1 instance. Easy to manage

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 17 points 2 weeks ago

I've been called out on Lemmy by people I know from a specific Twitch channel, not like a small channel, but not one of those super huge ones. It's probably because I'm a huge nerd and hang out where the best nerds hang out <3

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do people actually use the same name on every platform? I know I did, until I realized I specifically wanted to avoid people from connecting the dots. Nowadays though, every site gets a new user name.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Depending on the purpose of the account: Sometimes yes.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 2 weeks ago

Happened to me when my colleague was using this small php template engine written by the admin of this small forum I was a regular at.

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

There really is an xkcd for everything.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's fun, I ran into a youtuber I watch on Reddit once. I think ot was actually him commenting on my post