Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App

• Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Meetup is now owned by Bending Spoons, who have also enshittified wetransfer, Evernote, eventbrite, AOL, vimeo. They buy decent products that never exploded to ipo status, fire everyone and milk the rest for whatever they can charge.

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ironic that they named themselves on a plot about breaking out of a cycle of control, classic Palantir or Anduril vibes too of like “haha movies good where stonks”

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why does one company need to own meetup and eventbrite?

    Is that not a monopoly? How does it not violate any anti-trust laws?

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There is one, Mobilizon

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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• JamieDub86@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You got a link to what meetup has been up to?

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I, too, am interested in hearing about these supposed shenanigans.

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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, but I used to be more active until I saw that they started to increasingly prevent you from talking to other participants, and even seeing who other people are (can’t even tell gender or anything) unless you paid for their higher tier. I literally saw it get added out of the blue after years of no such restrictions, and they’ve only dug deeper and deeper. I couldn’t even connect with someone with whom I met just because I didn’t attempt to get their number immediately on the spot.

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    • JamieDub86@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thank you. I havent used meetup in 10 or so years. Cant remember paid features then. People also had a profile, with a picture, so as you could see interests and groups they were part of, there was also a message board for the group and messaging members wasnt an issue. Sad to see what its become.

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      • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, we can no longer msg other participants without paying. I guess they’ve picked up on it having dating potential since it has a “Single” designation so it may get added to Match’s ever-growing portfolio down the years, haha.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I dunno, I left a couple years ago after they stopped providing .ics, started spamming our members that we were paying for, and then refused to provide us with the emails of our members.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just join a group, and you’ll see. It’s so goddamn scummy and nickel/diming.

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