I, too, have grappled with the relevancy issue, especially in terms of geographic relevance. The Twitter feature that allowed you to see “trending in your area” was beautiful until it got algorithmatized. I have used location based searching on IG and TikTok to find other local creators and businesses.

Part of the reason Facebook became so popular in the first place was because it helped us reliably connect with real people on our college campuses (local community) who were relevant to us. But then they commercialized and became the macdaddy of doomscrolling and outrage farming. Haha. Which that in itself led to the rise of “fb groups” which are basically little Facebook federations. 🤣 But I digress.

Anyway, we need both options: to be able to see what’s happening in the wider world as it is happening in real time AND the ability to reliably connect with people who are relevant IRL. Putting the *social* back into social media. Right now they’ve gone way too heavy into the *media* side of that moniker.

P.S. I’ve got Flockstr on my list of clients to try for local connecting.

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