like you know you’re a good person at heart but life circumstances and trauma and bullying and etc prevented you from learning the proper social skills to find companionship. not necessarily a forum to actually find friends (i find going into things with that intention feels fake and weird), but rather a forum to commiserate and share advice and coping mechanisms and so on.

loneliness is increasing worldwide, esp in men. and it’s very easy to get into the weeds on this of course…

happy fuckin holidays

  • Icaria@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    One of the servers I’m in literally has a How to Make Friends pinned post for people who might need it.

    Out of morbid curiosity, could we see it?

    We’ve got basic conflict resolution tactics written into our rules… not that anyone reads them.

    I’ve found that people on local servers tend to be a mix, including other lonely or socially awkward people.

    Give it a few more years and you’ll realise how much deeper that rabbit hole goes. I’m resigned to the fact that discord isn’t even really a gaming platform any more, let alone a social one; most people seem to be trying to use it for scoring drugs or hookups/affairs. Lots of kink stuff, too - it is following the same path as Second Life did. Also goes well beyond lonely and socially awkward; antisocial nutjobs abound.