Why build this?

It's 2026 and the world feels chaotic, uncertain and challenging.

Despite amazing technological breakthroughs and unbelievable creation of wealth many of us feel society is heading backwards.

Gross inequality. Unaffordable basics. Climate breakdown.

The problems can seem so big it's hard to know where to start.

What to do?

The same as ever. Come together. Build community. Work together and create the change.

I'm talking about real community: face to face, shoulder to shoulder. In the same room, around the same fire.

Not the hollow spaces offered by big tech. They sell "connection" while serving us outrage and polarising slop.

Here's the good news.

We already have the strongest communities, right here in Liverpool. We've got it all: crowd-funding, popup talks, mutal aid, people's film screenings, solidarity marches, radical book fairs, tool libraries, repair cafes, protest groups... all on our doorstep.

Behind every one of these is a community organiser, putting in the unpaid hours to bring us together.

But it's easy to miss. We learn about it after the fact.

We're not "engaging" enough

In the age of the attention economy, community leaders are drowned out by corporations and influencers.

The platforms that used to work have left us high and dry. We're not paying for ads, and the algorithms don't find us "engaging". So we post into the void.

It's time to rebuild.

Bring back the websites, mailing lists and forums. Own our online spaces again. Talk directly to our communities. Cut out the West Coast Weirdos.

Liver Board is a humble start

It's a community noticeboard for face to face events. Sociable, open, tolerant events.

It highlights and cheerleads the do-ers of Liverpool. It connects them together, directly. No need for big tech. No ads, no trackers, no slop.

It's a humble start.

Does any of this ring true?

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