What's the digital equivalent of running into someone at the grocery store?
Closest I can think of is attending the same small-scale zoom event within a niche community
As far as I can tell we've yet to properly design spontaneous run-ins with mutuals on the web
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For me, that’s often commenting in the same GitHub issue turning into a chat on twitter DMs / slack etc
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True, running into people across platforms has the nice effect of seeing people in different contexts / modes
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I find this happens on Twitter with me on occasion. I catch someone I don’t hear from often as their tweet is at the top of my timeline and we end up catching up.
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Yeah, I wish there were more ways for mutual visibility
Currently, you see the tweet but the tweeter doesn't see you
Unless you like / reply. But those both have other existing meanings (approval / additional thoughts) vs. the nice meaningless "hello, how are you? " grocery chat
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Definitely keeping my eye on it - only been exploring it this week but certainly has more elements of spontaneous run-ins than text-stream-based media
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Hopped on a Zoom yoga class with one of my favorite teachers and saw names of old co-workers I hadn’t seen in years. Was a fun surprise that led to great catch up convos afterwards!
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Running into your mutuals in a random Twitter thread unrelated to your main interests :P
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Have seen folks do this in orgs using stuff like gather.town, teamflowhq, or Recurse's internal tool, outside of that maybe discord (can float between different servers which are proxies for orgs/social circles, see who is online) or possibly clubhouse down the line?
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