My country heavily uses Facebook for all events. Sadly I can’t find cool events without it. Even leftist groups are heavily on Meta, which I can’t understand…
Does anyone have experience pushing to get communities off of Meta? Suggestions?
I’m in a NATO “ally” to the US country
Yeah I basically need Facebook for the events and WhatsApp is absolutely necessary for work and social life. Absolutely everybody uses WhatsApp so if I didn’t it would be like not having a phone… I guess in nonprofits that are open to being critical against the “Big Tech” “Gafam” you could try getting people to check out Mobilizon or if it’s just planing a date with friends then Framadate is better suited. Of course there are probably other alternatives that could fit some use cases better but I think giving one option to people is better than ten and forcing people to then choose.
Part of it is a chicken or egg. I go into these platforms and there’s nothing there, so I don’t check them. Organizers see nobody checking them, so they don’t maintain them.
Well framadate is just a link to send to friends to pick a time and date for a meet up so you dont need the network.
Mobilizion can be linked to a website or your own calendar I guess but I suppose there are just too many people that use Facebook indeed.