Being remote is a lifestyle, where as a meetup is an event, so I think it's worse than Meetup. The brand Meetup is problematic though. It makes it harder to talk about events without accidentally dropping the name of a company. Meetup may have gotten a pass because they've done pretty good, but they are now driving away their customer base (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20893343/meetup-users-fu...). There are also other companies like https://remote.co/ that are already using the name remote, but remote.co is respectfully calling themselves remote.co instead of just remote. Having a .com shouldn't be a ticket to appropriate a common word and turn it into a brand.