“Messaging and communication are too important to be controlled by a private corporation. For all of their faults, our phone or text messaging services allow portability.”

Agreed! I am still a bit sad that the diaspora project never took off. That said I may “have” to start using Facebook again soon, since most of the community events and groups on Pender seem to be planned through it. There used to be a dedicated community site but it was shut down due to lack of interest, I’m guessing because people just found the Facebook group easier to use.