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@bflipp Sorry for your loss.

Yeah, my mom's hometown is maybe 800 people and I'm not sure how the local paper manages to stay in business.

There's more to life than the "EcOnOmY"

True. But will getting rid of the local paper improve anyone's life in a measurable way?
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Small town fedi instances when

Don't get it twisted, if your mom and her friends like their local gazette well enough to keep it running in the black ink (pun intended) then I say more power to them. The problem my suggestion is addressing is that increasingly, people don't. If they also don't want internet, that's fine too, but they can't expect to not keep up with the times and not get left behind simultaneously.

You're right, you're just too smart and deep and cool and attractive to even have a conversation with a lowly pleb like me.

I'm just confused why you wasted that searing insight posting it on the internet instead of having the clearly much more rewarding experience of having it publish in a paper with a circulation of 2 dozen 🤔 🤷‍♀️

@nicholas @feld @joe @bflipp I actually wanted to start one of those, but I wasn't sure how to get people to join.

@feld @nicholas @joe @bflipp I've never used Nextdoor. I don't know anyone in my area who uses Nextdoor. I'm not sure if it's even available in this country.
How do you know the people who use it will be like that? Do you live here?

@feld @bflipp @joe @nicholas I think a @mobilizon instance at least would be really cool so we could stop using Facebook events.

@feld @nicholas @joe @bflipp Maybe Facebook? But I don't use it so I don't know.

@feld @bflipp @joe @nicholas The people I know who use Facebook haven't told me about anything like that as far as I remember. Not everywhere in the world is the same, you know.

@feld @nicholas @joe @bflipp Also, what sort of stuff goes on on nextdoor? Like I said, I've never used it.

@feld @nicholas @joe @bflipp I don't know anyone like that.

It's a lot of garage sale announcements. We used it to ask people in our area for recommendations for a tree-cutting service once. And in my neighborhood there are a lot of "watch out for black bear on [X] corner" posts in the spring.

If it's all local you can print up QR stickers and paste them around town pretty easy. Or put an announcement in the local paper.... 🤔