Knocking on a door and actually talking with people. Barring that a ham bbs that geographically covers your tegion.
when's the last time you were happy and excited when someone randomly knocked on your door? exactly
why is this
Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
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Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#62Website to announce and register interest, mailing list or blog to post. You can send your website updates to Facebook for the first few months then kill it once everyone is on board.
Yeah, simply write some .html, .css and .js files, just `scp` it over to your VPS and then easily setup Mailman with systemd. Easy peazy :)
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#63> I live in a more rural community (moved from a big city). We have 5-6 small (~50k people) towns, all well connected. Everything happens on Facebook. I would like to move to a different platforms. Plus points for self-hosted, federated. Do YOU want to move off of Facebook for some reason, or do people want to move off of Facebook for some reason. MOST people in the US, especially in a rural are are not going to quit…
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President. "Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly". Free Speech in the US is dying. Ignore it at your own peril.
Dying? It isn't free speech if you can say what you like, but can only do it in a sound proofed room, alone.
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#64> I live in a more rural community (moved from a big city). We have 5-6 small (~50k people) towns, all well connected. Everything happens on Facebook. I would like to move to a different platforms. Plus points for self-hosted, federated. Do YOU want to move off of Facebook for some reason, or do people want to move off of Facebook for some reason. MOST people in the US, especially in a rural are are not going to quit…
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President. "Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly". Free Speech in the US is dying. Ignore it at your own peril.
Are you talking about his role censoring for the current, or for the former admin? His flip flopping shows such a lack of character. However, being selectively outraged because this time he is doing it for someone you disagree with, which a lot of people are, reveals the real motives.
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#65Why not Mastodon?
https://joinmastodon.org/
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#66> I live in a more rural community (moved from a big city). We have 5-6 small (~50k people) towns, all well connected. Everything happens on Facebook. I would like to move to a different platforms. Plus points for self-hosted, federated. Do YOU want to move off of Facebook for some reason, or do people want to move off of Facebook for some reason. MOST people in the US, especially in a rural are are not going to quit…
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President. "Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly". Free Speech in the US is dying. Ignore it at your own peril.
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You're correct, but this is quite a boring response. If no one tried to make the world a better place, the world would never get better. It is an uphill battle, but I wish the OP luck all the same.
If you can't communicate with anyone you can't make the world a better place.
Tell that to Jadav Payeng, who planted a forest by himself. He accomplished, on his own, more for the good of the world than most communities on Facebook ever will.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/jadav-payeng-the-...
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#68Knocking on a door and actually talking with people. Barring that a ham bbs that geographically covers your tegion.
when's the last time you were happy and excited when someone randomly knocked on your door? exactly
When you live in a rural area, you're way more isolated. Remember when the lockdowns were finally over and you were happy to just be able to interact with people again, even if you were an introvert like me? It's kinda like that.
Also, door to door salesmen don't tend to go to rural areas.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President. "Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly". Free Speech in the US is dying. Ignore it at your own peril.
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Musk has been promoting his views and demoting post that he doesn’t agree with.
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Most people in the US have already quit that app, the battle's not that uphill. You're starting half up
> Most people in the US have already quit that app Subjectively, that feels wildly untrue. Do you have any numbers to back this up?
>> Subjectively, that feels wildly untrue. Do you have any numbers to back this up?
Agreed. Also not everyone realizes WhatsApp and IG are also part of Facebook. Aside from elderly folks, almost now one I know uses traditional facebook. However, almost all Millenials and GenZ I know use IG. Practically everyone I know who has overseas family/friends uses WhatsApp.