We have a website. The website links to linktree. The linktree has a link to our events page. Our events calendar is on Facebook. Our events sign up is via Google Forms or Eventbrite. Our new events are only announced via Instagram. You can also reach out with questions. We only have a Telegram groupchat.

This is far too many words to say “go fuck yourself”

No part of this includes any embellishments, this is a real local collective and my experience of trying to sign up for a future event
Without a Facebook and Instagram and Eventbrite and Telegram account, you cannot participate in society, and I think that’s absolutely horrendous.

@maxine I’ve been hitting the same problems in some contexts this side and it gives me very unkind feelings towards that whole class of things

Also fucking “business comms on whatsapp”, so many have started normalizing it here

(I simply block and report it)

@froztbyte literally can’t get anything done in Germany without whatsapp. It’s either please call us, or exclusively using whatsapp, email is for sending invoices only. And whatsapp is for sending voice notes only, because that is the future of communication.

In this case tho it’s a community thing and like, why are you making it so hard to join 😭

@maxine Please direct all correspondence via snail mail to our administrative office in Alpha Centauri.
@alan this would be a genuine improvement

@maxine lol.

Remember the days of "To join/follow send an email to [email protected] with 'JOIN' in the subject"? Or a crappy CGI form that submits to an email inbox? Pepperridge Farms remembers. Tell me this is better, I dare you.

@tezoatlipoca I was there and I want back, now
@maxine about the only way to make this worse is if the website was on medium