Maybe Luma is better, but if you have to pay you have to insert a credit card or Apple Pay, Google Pay etc...

Meetup was sold to We Work a few years ago and then sold on to some private equity company. It’s not the same meetup of years gone by. nostr:npub1eejna2znm5vjf7lu5zwas6jnm0wlqw3psh89yxusdkeldq9kd7ns2npt3l actually tried to start a decentralized competitor to meetup before she founded Bluesky.

The meetup organizer has always had to give them a CC in order to pay the monthly fee.

It is like primal so...

I see … thanks for the info .

meetup is straight garbage

i fucking hate meetup dot com need to make it obsolete

we greatly appreciate your work and the ecosystem you and others are creating... freedom is worth fighting for and freedom tech can help us win... many thanks!

I used it circa 2012. It was pretty nice and wholesome back then. What you just described sounds dystopian.

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp6090a6y29tjh84qt3hq79havzeemlvzjwkjdg7q89x3zy87whltqqs8dq45s5tucsmc4t35f7a0vj7lfg8254rerzuypx7t7vxurlkgwtcpct3qa

I used it a couple times years ago and it was cancer. I'm shocked it's even still around.

Meetup wouldn't let me sign up with a protonmail account. I ignored them after.

So when we've debanked ourselves we can't attend any of these events anyway, lol. It's the fiat Internet that is dying 😊. Let's promote even more https://nostrcal.com/

That's why we use #crypto

I completely agree. I have noticed that platforms like this are increasingly forcing users to provide personal privacy information when participating in simple activities. The internet is becoming less open and more dependent on paywalls, which is frustrating. So lately, I have been taking my Used C...