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2025-01-10 13:21:32

Flamekebab@toot.wales

As Facebook continues to deteriorate I find myself having to revisit what my lifeboat options are for the #Gorkamorka
FB group I/we run. It's the most successful GoMo community there has ever been, which is wonderful, but the platform is awful.

I wonder if anyone on the #Fediverse has put thought into how best to move a #FacebookGroups community.

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2025-01-10 15:36:54

Elisheva Meira ✡︎ 🌈

emmaaum@zirk.us

@Flamekebab Can anyone host an instance for the group? That would knock out some big barriers like choosing a server and it could be moderated to your community's preferences and needs.
"Sign up here" will always be easier than "Pick a server."
(This worked well for a community I'd like to be more a part of.)

Are you exploring different platforms within the fediverse? A few people doing that would help build momentum and investment in the move as well as figure out what works best for the group

2025-01-10 15:49:58

Flamekebab

Flamekebab@toot.wales

@emmaaum an instance of what though? Therein lies the rub. I'm not sure whether a discussion platform that resembles FB Groups' functionality (but much improved and not designed with deliberate malice in mind).

2025-01-10 16:47:39

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Flamekebab If you're looking for "Facebook anything in the Fediverse", and you either want it to be easy-peasy, or you want to run it via a phone, or both, try Friendica. It was created in 2010, five and a half years before Mastodon, explicitly as an alternative to Facebook. Not an all-out Facebook clone, but better than Facebook, and still with everything that's actually useful about Facebook. Including groups.

So you do as follows:

Register a user account on a Friendica node for the Facebook group. On Friendica, groups are user accounts with specific settings.
All those of you who are on Mastodon, and who want to stay on Mastodon, join the group from Mastodon. Attention, though, for starting new threads in a Friendica group from Mastodon requires some steps that aren't engrained in Mastodon's culture.
All those of you who are not on Mastodon join Friendica, and so they have something that's close enough to Facebook. They don't necessarily have to be on the same node as the group, but they may. If they have phones, they install RaccoonForFriendica on them.

(Sorry, fellow Hubzilla and (streams) users, but if it has to be quick and easy, I'm not going to tell folks to join something with a complex permission apparatus that doesn't have native phone apps.)

CC: @Elisheva Meira ✡︎ 🌈

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Facebook #FacebookAlternative #FacebookGroups #Friendica

2025-01-10 17:00:16

Flamekebab

Flamekebab@toot.wales

@jupiter_rowland I'm after some form of discussion forum. The FB side of things is irrelevant to my needs (potentially actively harmful). I don't know precisely what that looks like as it doesn't need to be a traditional forum (I like 'em, but there's a few thousand other people who might feel differently).

2025-01-10 17:37:24

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Flamekebab If there are more than you in the Fediverse already, a Friendica group is a quite reasonable option. Hubzilla and (streams) are technically better, but trickier to get into.

If you're all ready and willing to start over from scratch, you may want to look at the Threadiverse, more specifically Mbin or PieFed, for a Reddit-like environment.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Facebook #FacebookAlternative #FacebookGroups #Friendica #Threadiverse #Mbin #PieFed