I'm planning a big Interrail trip this year.
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I'm planning a big Interrail trip this year.
What's the easiest / best / most fun way to meet up with friends for a drink in random cities?
I usually put out a message on social media saying "Anyone in $city fancy a pint tomorrow?"
Is there a way to see which of my friends on Signal / WhatsApp / LinkedIn are in a specific city? Or let them know I'm going to be within 10km of them?
I think I want engineered serendipity. Does that exist?
@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
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I'm planning a big Interrail trip this year.
What's the easiest / best / most fun way to meet up with friends for a drink in random cities?
I usually put out a message on social media saying "Anyone in $city fancy a pint tomorrow?"
Is there a way to see which of my friends on Signal / WhatsApp / LinkedIn are in a specific city? Or let them know I'm going to be within 10km of them?
I think I want engineered serendipity. Does that exist?
@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.
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@Edent dopplr? Sorry, wrong decade.
@jtonline yes please!
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@Edent You can announce it as a story on Signal
@malte good idea. I've never done stories there. I've also never seen them.
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@Edent I don't know but if you're in Rotterdam I'll buy you a pint*!
*Dutch sizes may vary
@hdv sadly not this trip. But hopefully soon!
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@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
@carl I fear I am too old for hostel beds
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@jtonline yes please!
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@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.
@ton oooooh! Nice!
I enjoyed my cencenelec meetings years ago. Have fun! -
@Edent I don't know but if you're in Rotterdam I'll buy you a pint*!
*Dutch sizes may vary
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I'm planning a big Interrail trip this year.
What's the easiest / best / most fun way to meet up with friends for a drink in random cities?
I usually put out a message on social media saying "Anyone in $city fancy a pint tomorrow?"
Is there a way to see which of my friends on Signal / WhatsApp / LinkedIn are in a specific city? Or let them know I'm going to be within 10km of them?
I think I want engineered serendipity. Does that exist?
@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)
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I'm planning a big Interrail trip this year.
What's the easiest / best / most fun way to meet up with friends for a drink in random cities?
I usually put out a message on social media saying "Anyone in $city fancy a pint tomorrow?"
Is there a way to see which of my friends on Signal / WhatsApp / LinkedIn are in a specific city? Or let them know I'm going to be within 10km of them?
I think I want engineered serendipity. Does that exist?
@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)
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@malte good idea. I've never done stories there. I've also never seen them.
@Edent All the contacts you'd like to see it will see it
