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Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by merqurio »

I would happily work on implementing a Meetup.com alternative based on ActivityPub and push for a federation of instances, much like Mastodon.

Each community has very different needs, but a federated network would help making the multi-community reality we experience much easier.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by edisonjoao »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #108
Cshelton wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm actually building something right now. I'm building it because it is a problem I've faced among my friends and well.. the "millennial" generation to begin with. I'm building it first to be used among myself and friends. I don't want to say too much because to me the solution seems so obvious and I'd like to have something out there and tried on a small scale first, but... the key is not to focus on events directl…

Let's talk, i'm building one too. But with some different use-cases probably. Nico at Sapico dot me I have a marketing plan ready which is dublicateable for every city. Belgium and Netherlands is reserved for me ;)

would love to connect as well. working on something similar as well.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by bboreham »

hdpq wrote: post #140
disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, if this goes through, we'll need to move all our meetups to email notifications, which will kill virality but given that no-one's going to pay for a meetup, is probably the better solution. I fucking hate WeWork (i was really worried when Meetup.com was acquired, and it appears that I was correct to be).

I would have been OK with We buying Meetup if they offered their space for meetups ... but alas ... they did literally nothing and likely we'll see that the product was killed in the end.

Meetup.com does let organisers book WeWork spaces. Free.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by merqurio »

merqurio wrote: post #182

I would happily work on implementing a Meetup.com alternative based on ActivityPub and push for a federation of instances, much like Mastodon. Each community has very different needs, but a federated network would help making the multi-community reality we experience much easier.

Mobilizing[1] seems like it's already implemented using ActivityPub !

https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon/

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by mrfusion »

A feature I really want is to just show me every possible event in a given radius happening today.

I figure a miss a lot just searching for my interests. I’d rather just see everything nearby.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by taude »

So, since there could be a fee now, will we not officially be the product for whatever behind-the-scenes data mining they're doing with our PII? I'd probably actually be OK paying a couple bucks/meetup for this.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by rospaya »

ghaff wrote: post #25
emptybits wrote: post #10

I fear this $2/attendee grab by Meetup will drive more people to Facebook for finding and planning and advertising events. Sadface. The understandable reason: Facebook is "free" and most of these better alternatives will be fragmented and mainstream unknown for a long time. Maybe one overarching event-search service could help the fragmentation problem, if it doesn't already exist.

A per-person charge makes free/volunteer-organized events largely a non-starter. Any charge is a huge friction for people signing up for something. And unless it's a corporate sponsored event (and often even then), the $5 or so per person who actually ends up attending is significant. Probably people/companies will just depend on word of mouth and other channels to promote events and not depend on discovery through a…

I run a corporate sponsored meetup and the $2 fee is a non starter. My budget is for the venue, stickers and beers, this would increase the cost of every meetup by 50% providing nothing in return.

Edit: After reading a bit more about it, the cost is to the users, not organizers, which makes even less sense. Why would anyone ever RSVP instead of just showing up?

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