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lfxyz ◴[26 Jun 25 08:07 UTC] No.44385256[source]▶

I attended one of their events a few months ago in Amsterdam. You have to hand in your phone when entering the venue and get it back afterwards. I spent around 2 hours reading my kindle in silence. It was really nice being in a space where everyone had put their phones away, but paying 10 euros for the privilege of doing so means I'm unlikely to turn up regularly when I could just go to a cafe and put my phone on airplane mode for free.

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1. gagik_co ◴[26 Jun 25 22:24 UTC] No.44392082[source]▶

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I’m sure in a nice community cafe you could just ask them to hold onto your phone if you really wanted to. This is one of those Silicon Valley things where everything needs to be commodified with some nice branding and an app offering a solution to a problem solvable with “talk to other humans”.

I thought this was a timeleft kind of deal about pairing for dinner with strangers but it’s barely even that.

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