over the years i have noticed that it is very difficult to find public events and third spaces in my city (vienna). it seems plausible and obvious to me that there should be easily-accessible public lists (calendars) about which places i could visit and what events i could go to. yet, such lists do not exist, or if they do they are rather small.

analogously, the fediverse / small internet suffers from a very similar problem. there are a lot of very small but very nice websites out there, and a lot of small communities on the fediverse that you would like to know about, but you will never know them because there's no way to find them. what is the likelihood of accidentally stumbling upon the !goblincore@lemmy.blahaj.zone community if it isn't accidentally popular enough to appear in the "All" feed? Basically zero. Yet i'm glad i found it (somehow through extreme accident and luck).

What i'm saying is, we need more links to new places. We should make sure that there's a whole lot of ways to find new content, because it's simply linked to from other places. The same applies in real life: we need better content discoverability. This means, we need to tell other people about cool places that we know about and that could interest them too. For example, if i visit place A in my city, i tell the people about place B that i also visit often, so they have a chance to hear about it and maybe get in contact with new opportunities. Please consider doing this for your environment too, maybe this even gives you a new chance to talk about stuff with people that you have just met. In case you don't know how to start a discussion, tell them about "hey i came to know this place through person X, which i also met at place B. do you know it?". This can make you find physical context for your own life.