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It’s all fine until the entire community you’re trying to participate in decides Twitter is the place to post things.

ahem

Would be great if we maybe chose someplace else to do this as a community… but I guess the eyeballs are there and that’s what is valuable to the folks posting.

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I live in an HOA. The only place they post information (like when trash pickup schedules change) is on Facebook.

Our HOA is forced to use an email mailing list. Enough older people who don't use facebook... and now younger people who refuse. Maybe ask for a show of hands at the next meeting. Sentiments can change overnight. Especially with the meta stuff happening at the moment.

We use a SaaS provider for our HOA and it works well, but there is a monthly / annual cost for that. That said, people still insist on posting to Facebook but the group can easily turn to poison and sniping which is super awesome for being neighborly…

Yeah sometimes the ubiquity of access and familiarity for HOAs and smaller community orgs make that gravity too strong.

Mostly I was thinking about tech folks and AI news that seems to go out on Twitter most of the time.

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