The enshitification of Meetup.com - eviltoast

$345 to tap Attend. A rediculous event on a local hiking group. We think the owners let it expire, and someone else bought up the group.

For those not aware, Meetup’s leadership has been pushing the “start a business on Meetup” agenda. It’s all downhill from here.

  • elephantium@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, basically you’d have to cut those figures down to 1/4 of what they are before I’d consider them reasonable.

    I do agree with you in principle – if the organizer is feeding everyone, it’s only decent to pitch in a few bucks to cover the groceries.

    • OwlPaste@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      I suppose they are also offering some kind of guided meditation as well as meals? I mean yeah it sort of sounds expensive, but also you do have designer handbags and jewellery that gets ridiculous prices.

      Anyway yeah I stopped doing meetup for a long time and absolutely detest SAAS business models of alot of digital vendors too.