I just found out about a covid forum called Still Coviding & Beyond. Does anyone have an invite? I feel like I'm signing up for a private torrent tracker!

Are there other worthwhile covid groups out there? Being permanently fucked up and unable to have a social life really makes one want to have people to talk to.

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[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ugh I was afraid you were going to say Facebook. I got off there 10 years ago and vowed never to go back.

I wonder if I can setup a fake profile with all the AI tech now? There's got to be a way to filter out their insane selfie and personal info requirements.

Sadly, no mask blocs here in my part of FL. Well, any active ones at least. A few groups were created but they all died on the vine.

Same with Refresh. Not a ton of active users when I signed ages ago. I'll have to give it another go.

I feel the same about ZCC. Its really gotten to be a place where people go to make themselves feel better about not doing as much as they should be doing. Masks4All is cool just for mask info, which is always helpful. Got some good info about my new Zimi order from there. I'll look into longcovid victims. Is it this one:

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/covidlonghaulers/

My foray into Twitter has been a failure since I can't get my account to work properly. At least I can follow people and curate a feed of sorts. Of course, they fucked up the algorithim now so everything is displayed out of order and late. I'm surprised there isn't a stronger contingent on Bluesky. Seems like the libs and trans people that migrated there would be perfect for a covid community.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I mean facebook sucks no doubt. But it's where a lot of folks are.

I'm in Florida as well, without doxxing myself I can at least confirm there is a Still Covid - Florida group. Activity is kind of hit or miss nowadays. It gets maybe one or two posts a week. There was a large amount of meetup activity in the tampa area, but the organizer for those meetups has been ill and is cutting back their involvement at the moment. Occasionally stuff pops up in the rest of the state (miami, ft lauderdale, orlando, jacksonville, gainesville. Outside of the fb group I'd guess Orlando is the most active because of a queer/disability group called Basically Wonderful that organizes a bunch of mask required mutual aid type community events. There's a couple of kinda dead discords floating around out there too, the now ill former meetup organizer was running one but shut it down and another smaller one popped up in response. I think Basically Wonderful has one also, that's probably much more active.

Yeah, I think that's the subreddit. Also CovidConnections, I think. I still mostly just check zcc, as shit as it is.

How you feel about fb is how I feel about twitter. I have an account or two, but rarely bother with it, mostly just refreshing tabs with specific users to check. Bluesky is an enigma to me.