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📣 arnath

Alternatives to Facebook Events and Messenger?


Does anyone know of a good alternative to Facebook Events + Messenger for organizing events and chatting with social groups. I'm part of an organization that travels to different events a lot and uses a combination of Facebook Events and Messenger to track RSVPs and chat about the events. However, we're all pretty eager to get off Facebook. I've been looking around today and haven't really found any alternatives that provide the same functionality. Anybody know of some good options?

  👤 holler Accepted Answer ✓
Hey arnath, I'm working on a new open public chat app called sqwok. It does _not_ have events, but that said, it's a new alternative for easily starting and sharing a quality chat with anyone.

As an example I just made a post about Amazon's Alexa Hardware event on Sept 24th. You could share this with anyone and they can open on phone or desktop and instantly chat: https://sqwok.im/p/S8-O4B-p6C_2tg.

I know it's not entirely what you're looking for but thought I'd share that people _are_ in fact working on new alternatives. For just the chat component you could create an account, make a post about the event, and share with everyone you want to talk to. Anyways thought I'd share, cheers mate.