@mayintoronto A few years ago, I could understand the argument that a group had to be visible on centralized commercial services. But those have become increasingly actively hostile environments. There's no point in trying to do search engine optimization or to go viral on social media anymore.

But there's a whole range of ways to announce events on your own website, from simply typing in the text on your homepage, to adding a calendar or running your own event scheduling service, like this one:

https://mobilizon.org/