My remote hope was that something like spontaneous organization could form here in the comments :P but honestly i'm aware this kind of thing requires years of putting yourself out there making smaller events, building up etc. But I've not really ever been in this world, it might be nice to know someone with a bit more experience to guide me, or hear about something already going before diving into organizing something myself

Looks like they are. Why don't you start responding to comments exhorting the person to do what they're already doing in the very comment you're responding to?

to be fair to them, my comment was a lot shorter when they responded, they were very fast aha