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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Has anyone here tried Minds ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have. It's not very good. It attracts the wrong kind of people and because of that it would be very hard to stand up a healthy group on there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh not this again, Louis Rossman put the argument I wanted to say in the best way, so here it is