”Connecting…” appears on the app, and then it hits you, that wave of self doubt about the subject you’ve been obsessing over for the last three years, and spent tens of thousands of hours researching… What if I connect to someone who knows more? A ‘super autist’ with a smidge of self doubt, I must learn more!

You connect as a hyperfixator:

Connecting…

Remote User Disconnected

Connecting…

Remote User Disconnected

Connecting…

That's what forums used to be

This should be the new education system. We'd fast track humanity tenfold.

This would be the end of me...my remaining lifetime would be put into that chat. Please don't, I still have many plans!

Old OkCupid had keyword search for finding those people.

“Destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base"
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

Sometimes I talk to my cat when I infodump.