Yeah, I hate facebook too, but sometimes you just have to acknowledge that flying the FOSS flag is not your primary objective. Like someone else said, if you have half the people on whatsapp, you’ll get much less than that with anything else.

I occasionally dream of having a better “community” in my suburb but basically, I just have zero available effort to invest in that. Like I’m not working today and looking forward to spending the afternoon in my pyjamas fiddling around at home. If I feel super motivated and energetic later I might take the kids somewhere. If there were a community thing scheduled I just… wouldn’t feel like going.

I think the best form of community I can manage is simply having a few people’s numbers in my phone and telling them when something happens “Hey Barb, just letting you know the neighbours car got broken into last night, hows things down your end?”