Neat idea, will check it out - appreciate the aspect of having a small community of active participants rather than a large group of predominantly inactive accounts, seems like it would drive more meaningful (and less toxic) interactions

I spent the last couple months building a website called Zakaya that should make it easier to make friends online.

Right now, I'm looking for programmers to join the first group on the site. Its totally free, only string attached is that I'll ask you for feedback.

Zakaya's goal is to create spaces where people can make genuine friends on the internet. These spaces are called micro-communities (aka mu's, pronounced "MEW"). Each mu has 100-200 active people and is loosely centered around a topic like programming. Off-topic conversation is highly encouraged.

Mu's are meant to be a contrast to the typical "community" we're sold these days. Instead of 100,000-1,000,000+ semi-inactive members, mu's give you a chance to meet new people and get to know them over time.

We have real-time chats, forums, scheduled events, group youtube rooms and group RSS feeds so you can communicate however you prefer.

Mu's are customizable with proposals that let members vote on changes proposed by other members. For now, these changes include adding new rooms, new reacts and new events.

If this sounds interesting to you, I'd be very happy to have you. You can apply to join a coding group at the following link,

https://zakaya.io/apply/10

I also wrote a brief technical blog post thinking it'd be good marketing but it's getting lukewarm reactions so I'm just attaching it at the bottom here.

https://zakaya.io/post/91485

TL;DR: The stack is flask + jinja rendered HTML templates + vanilla JS + postgresSQL + websockets + a little bit of redis

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

Best,

mrt