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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.
@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
@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).
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 ✡︎
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@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).
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
@Flamekebab That's why I suggested a few of you working together to explore different fedi platforms to find out what will best suit your needs.
Start with Friendica. Try others.
Other services like Matrix too.
I'm still a fan of old school forums and discussion boards but it can be hard to wean people off of the current social media styles they're used to.
Have you asked under # TTRP or whatever hashtags or groups fit? There's probably someone doing something similar.
@emmaaum There's only me in the sense of getting this sort of thing done and so far I'm despairing at how many of these projects have an aversion to screenshots.
Friendica looks like a useful FB alternative, but it's the opposite of what I'd want for this community.
Currently Discourse is the front runner - I want something that has an app (mobile-first is the reality for many of our users 
).