We're homeschooling. We want to socialize our child by connecting with other local homeschoolers.

- There are literally zero local groups who maintain a current website of any kind.

- They use Facebook groups exclusively.

- They use GroupMe chats to organize and discuss goings-on.

- All signups for co-op classes or activities are done with Google Forms.

- All documents that are shared are through Google Docs.

- Photos from activities are shared on Facebook.

- Nobody involved knows that any of this is a problem.

I am completely lost on how to regularly participate without undoing all my hard work. Right now my plan is to duplicate their privacy-violating services with FOSS and self-hosted options, then try to find a few who will consider using those instead. They're tolerating me currently, but one is already obviously frustrated that I can't just be found and added to groups with the app.

I was blindsided by the ignorance of the homeschool community. There's very little thought present of freedom or sovereignty, in privacy or money. Everything is permissioned, centralized, and doxxed.

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. We'll keep on keeping on, but it would be nice to have some switched-on locals to supplement the good Nostr crowd.