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It's been brought to my attention that while #BuyNothing groups are pretty useful, they tend to exist mainly on Facebook. It'd be nice to have such a group for #WaterlooRegion here on the fedi as well.

I'd be happy to set one up, but if there's one that already exists, I'd rather use that than start from scratch. Is anyone aware of such a group here?

#KWAwesome #WRAwesome #Kitchener #Waterloo #Cambridge #Guelph

#Cambridge #Waterloo #waterlooregion #kitchener #wrawesome #kwawesome #guelph #BuyNothing
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Valerie Roney
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we've got a (so far) small signal group just to chat local stuff, buy nothing could definitely be a part of that. DM me if want a link.
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Valerie Roney I really should get on Signal. Does it play well with RCS messaging?
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Valerie Roney
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I am not the nerd to answer that question but boosted this so hopefully somebody can.
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Valerie Roney It looks like I can install it without interfering with my existing SMS app. That was not the case when I first looked at it. I'll probably set it up when I can get around to it.
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eladnarra
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@vlrny As far as I know, Signal only does their encrypted messages. They used to do SMS as well (before RCS) but removed it to avoid confusion between which messages were encrypted and which weren't.
@Valerie Roney
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Quasit
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I don't know that region, but I would definitely be interested in a worldwide Fediverse group like that! And one for my own region, if possible.
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Quasit I thought about a global one, but worried it'd be a bit of a firehose with no real way of filtering.
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Quasit
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It seems to me that at current scale, we're unlikely to see a worldwide community on Mastodon that's overwhelming. And by the time such a community WOULD become overwhelming, I'd expect sub-groups to form - probably linked to the worldwide forum to allow users to select which areas they'd want to subscribe to.

Or maybe that should be a Lemmy thing. I don't know.

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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Darcy Casselman Hmm... Friendica doesn't seem to want to let me follow this group. I wonder if there's a bug in the way their server is implementing ActivityPub that Friendica doesn't like. (This would not be unprecedented.)
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Darcy Casselman
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I can follow @waterloo_region. (Probably should've done that already, but it's not terribly busy over there...)
@Waterloo Region
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Darcy Casselman
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@waterloo_region

Then again, it looks like I just submitted a follow request. Which isn't really what I'd expect from reddit-style communities on fedi...

@Waterloo Region
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Court
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apparently buy nothing has its own app now
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Court I did not know this. Does it still use Facebook as a backend?
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Court Also, now I wonder of setting up a group would open me up to trademark issues. I suppose I could pick a different name that conveys the same idea.
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Jonathan Lamothe
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Another thing that was brought to my attention is freecycle.org. I don't know much about them yet, but they exist and seem to offer a similar type of service here.

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VulcanTourist
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I participated in Freecycle for many years. It's quite legitimate. It doesn't get the attention it deserves.
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Neil Brown
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We used to have an active Freecycle group around here - it was a mailing list - perhaps 15/20 years ago.

It was replaced with Freegle, which was also a mailing list.

Then most things seemed to move to Facebook groups.

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Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his)
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FWIW, while I’m not what a # BuyNothing group talks about, the local KW Techs Slack team has a # buylocalandcanadian channel that has great recommendations for local and more-broadly Canadian products, and is focused mainly on independent businesses. It's a great resource, though obviously not fediverse.

Also FWIW, I’d love to see something similar here.

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