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This is really sad to me, I legitimately want a site where I can find a buddy to go fishing with. I moved several years ago, and I really don't have any real "man" friends. I'm friendly with my coworkers, but its not really a "lets go fishing this weekend" kind of thing.

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I've had similar thoughts. Someone needs to create a kind of "Tinder for hobbies" app, if one does not already exist. Perhaps it could show a list of local activities allowing you to swipe right on things you would be interested in attending, then attempts to match you with people who would also be interested in going to the same event.

This could work well for scheduled events as well as your weekend fishing example.

For unscheduled events, you would only want to know about people into the same stuff in your immediate vicinity. "Platonic Grindr"?

That would be fantastic, and definitely something I'd use. The idea of meeting up with a dynamically composed group of people to go and do an activity really appeals to me - especially with hobbies where new views/insights are particularly valuable.

Does something like this already exist, anyone (I'm googling and not yet finding anything)?

Other commenters have noted meetup.com seems to be the closest. I'm hoping something else more like this already exists, as meetup.com isn't exactly what I had in mind.

But please don't require people to have a Stasi 2.0/Facebook account to use your service.

meetup.com kind of does this.

Isn't that meetup.com?

I really wish someone built this - not just for fishing, for any activity, with the serious intention of forming long lasting friendships. Meetup is good for specific activities, it is fun during the said activities. But it rarely lasts beyond those times. The only other avenue to forming good friendships seems to be volunteering. It would be awesome to have a place where making friends is primary objective, and everything else is secondary.

There's Meetup.com where you can start or join local groups for such things. My local area has a ton of groups for all sorts of social activities and if there are any other fishermen looking to cast a line, you might have some luck there (or start your own group and take the initiative).

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