Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

Re:Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? by helboi4 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @09:40AM (#42780580)

Everything I do is either a Whatsapp group or a Telegram group these days. Whatsapp is owned by Meta but is at least encrypted, private and free from the bullshit of a real social media. Telegram is a better alternative if you really want to leave Meta behind. People will suggest Signal but in my experience literally nobody uses it except radical organisers. I have only one group on there and its for a protest group. Nobody else ever even messages me on there.

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Re:Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? by gvurrdon on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @11:44AM (#42782171)

I've managed to persuade some people and groups to use Signal. If I could find a way to use Whatsapp without Meta being able to identify me via my phone number and ransack my contacts then I would, reluctantly, give it a go.

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Re:Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? by benatkin on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @03:15PM (#42784704)

It’s owned by Facebook

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Re:Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? by helboi4 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @05:05AM (#42791111)

Did you read my comment smartass? Do you think I don't know that?

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Re:Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? by benatkin on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:37AM (#42793910)

Just agreeing with you but taking it farther for myself by not acknowledging the Altria-like new name

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Re:Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? by helboi4 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @09:35AM (#42804402)

Lmao I just looked up Altria: "Altria Group, Inc. is an American corporation and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes, and medical products in the treatment of illnesses caused by tobacco." Absolutely hilariously ghoulish.

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