What are people using instead of meetup.com these days?

Years ago I used meetup.com to find local events and it was pretty effective.

I have returned to it after a long break and now it is:

  • All around terrible to use – the upselling and nagging to subscribe/install the app is unbearable
  • A ghost town, it feels like – one can no longer see attendee lists without premium and a lot of the events listed feel like duplicates (the throwaway AI images do not help)

What have people living in Tokyo moved to as alternative, if anything? I heard of luma.com but the amount of AI and crypto related stuff listed for Tokyo puts me off…

by GroomedHedgehog