I'm planning a big Interrail trip this year.

[knapjack@gruntle.cc]

There was this interesting accidental stalkerware called Jabberwocky that worked on that idea that you bump into people every day that you don't interact with, but apparently there's that person in the pub who also buys produce the same time as you every week, maybe you should wave or chat them up.

[carl@kde.social]

@Edent I book hostels on hostelworld and use their chat to meet the other people backpacking there at the moment. It always worked but the target age is 18-30

[ton@m.tzyl.eu]

@Edent I have used Dopllr styled blogposts that only went out through RSS to regular readers. Marked up and all. Like here: https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2025/12/25936/ But hoping to see dopplr redone in activitypub using the proper activitystreams for it.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@jtonline yes please!

[edent@mastodon.social]

@malte good idea. I've never done stories there. I've also never seen them.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@hdv sadly not this trip. But hopefully soon!

[edent@mastodon.social]

@carl I fear I am too old for hostel beds

[ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk]

@Edent @jtonline I still miss dopplr

[edent@mastodon.social]

@ton oooooh! Nice!
I enjoyed my cencenelec meetings years ago. Have fun!

[dletorey@front-end.social]

@hdv @Edent You'll both be at SotB26 so you could buy real Pints at the social

[edent@mastodon.social]

@dletorey @hdv
Hurrah

[alifeee@mastodon.social]

@Edent while you might not be staying at hostels, most of them have a pub/bar, and some of them are nice and social (and everyone is willing/wanting to talk to others)

I don't know if you know of any, but I have also found people on "maps" (map of all "X" maps, like "global map of niche hobby" e.g., freeskating & toki pona speaking)

[patrick@mendeddrum.org]

@Edent I find organized chaos to work best. The organized part is if there's friends I really want to meet I make sure to contact them beforehand to plan around. For the rest, it's mainly posting on Mastodon with a general message, or just enjoy being on my own ;-). (cc @bigcalm, thanks for boosting)

[malte@radikal.social]

@Edent All the contacts you'd like to see it will see it