I'm moving my meetup groups from meetup.com to OpenMeet, a free, open-source alternative. If you're a member, you'll get the new links from me. The events themselves aren't changing.
This isn't a crusade. It's a personal decision about money and trust. I thought some people might be thinking through the same issues.
My last renewal, on September 2, was $178.99 for six months, plus tax: $191.52. That's $383.04 a year to host free hobby groups.
At the end of my post on how to deshittify Facebook, I promised Amazon was next. Then I sat down to write it and realized the problems (plural) posed by Amazon's enshittification are much different than Facebook's, and we should start by looking at what kinds of problems we'll be trying to work around, and why.
For each company we deal with (Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Netflix and other streamers, banks, ...) the kind of dystopian trap we're in changes what "making it less bad" even means.