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Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I admin a Facebook group with just about 30k people in it. It used to be great, and over the past few years the enshittification has been too much. Lately there is an out of control Facebook AI bot posting constantly pissing everyone off that we can't seem to turn off. I only use FB for the group, and don't have their spyware - I mean, app - installed and wont. Admin abilities are severely limited on the webapp.

I'm stepping down as admin cuz I'm tired of this mess. But I'd like to offer an alternative community to members who are ready to jump ship. Is a Lemmy community the best option? It's a photo heavy group so when Pixelfed launches groups that will be great, but I haven't seen an ETA on that. I've read that Piefed has better mod controls. It can/should be public and accessible across platforms.

Thoughts? And before anyone points it out, I know most folks won't bother switching. But I also miss when it was smaller and had more chill vibes so I can live with that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately Diaspora does not use the ActivityPub protocol and doesn't even bridge to it. They have made the deliberate choice to not ever have a sizeable community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's s closed or somewhat closed community yes. But it does communicate with Friendica and allows crossposts from e.g. mastodon. It's actually a great place to get away from all the noise of the social media world without leaving social media

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you have more information on how it supports crossposting with Mastodon? As far as I know, Friendica supports its protocol, but that's about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It depends on the pod. Some have implemented it. I see cross-posts from mastodon on my diaspora timeline. They are more like well-embedded posts, but they do carry a link to the original mastodon post

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

thank you!