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Poll: What is the best meetup site/app?(self)
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Do any of you have experience with meetups? I've both attended and organized a few of these. Now there are so many options. I'd love to see what you think about which ones are good or not because I want to branch out off of meetup.com. I mostly have experience with Meetup.com and Luma.

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[-]pumpkin2(+2|0)

HER

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

HER? Is that a platform? I couldn't find it. Or are you saying here? We could. We'd need to get a little more population going and get some activity going in specific local subs.

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[-]pumpkin1(+1|0)

I was joking. It's a place to meet lesbians.

I voted on Facebook, and haven't a clue how those meeting places work. I have options to meet people in other ways. As for matrix population development, I think we can promote original content at matrix by posting matrix links at various social media sites, like Reddit &c.

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[-]RickSanchez2(+2|0)

I don't use any. I'm a loner and stick with my friends and family.

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[-]newJiminy1(+1|0)

I don't think anyone really uses those

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[-]CrispyCritter1(+1|0)

My friends have all started using Partiful for house parties and smaller events. It’s cute but a bit annoying when you’re trying to find the event info from an invite you got a while ago.

I’ve only used Meetup for industry events (software dev meetups). Eventbrite seems like it’s for bigger concerts and club nights. Haven’t used any of the others.

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[-]LarrySwinger1(+1|0)

Meetup.com was good but lost in popularity during cuckdowns and never fully recovered. Now they put more of the website behind a paywall. I think you can still manage to organize something on there. The stuff that I see at least in my area is very generic, by the way. Not so good anymore for discovering events although I'm less interested in that to begin with now.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

Texts, Email, Facebook, Telegram, Discord, Signal are the ones my freedom folks use.

Email and Facebook only for the Windsor Media Centre.

Phone for everyone else.

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[-]newJiminy1(+1|0)

That'd be people you know right, meetup sites would be to make new friends, and there's no need to use a third party corporate app to chat with your friends and family.

This is like dating apps, not many use them anymore as the corporations enshittify them.

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[-]xoenix1(+1|0)

I used meetup a little before the pandemic, mostly to find groups. The pandemic pretty much killed them though and I haven't seen them come back.

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[-]x0x71(+1|0)

They are definitely back. I've been going to a few game jams lately. With AI existing, pretty much anyone can pull off doing something at one of those. Sometimes, all it takes is going somewhere with just a half-ounce of social pressure to focus on that one thing. It forces you to block off time to learn a new skill. And it's easy enough now that if you use it to block off the time, you will pick something up in those 2ish hours. Highly recommend.

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