But you do realise your advice is ignored by roughly 99.9% of people who use FB and co. and this is still where the people are?

Also, what real choices of owned plattforms besides old school forums are there?

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Scaled a day ago | parent | next [-]

Facebook is one of the worst places to build a community. You now have to pay to post more than two links a month, even.

And you might be impressed how far forums have come. Open source Discourse forum now has built-in Discord like voice and video chat, along with real time text posts. (It also powers some extremely large communities with millions of users.)

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lukan a day ago | parent [-]

Oh I agree in general, I don't have FB. And discourse forum is probably what I would have tried too, but can it really scale to millions of active users? The largest I know are some linux forums, but they are way smaller.

	▲	Scaled a day ago \| parent [-]
		Oh yes, it's used by Roblox, Blizzard, Unity, Epic, etc. Often the big companies remove the branding, but it's Discourse under the hood.

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bigyabai a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> what real choices of owned plattforms besides old school forums are there?

ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr, to name a few.

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lukan a day ago | parent [-]

And what thriving communities build up on those protocols?

	▲	bigyabai 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Close-knit ones, the sort that don't trade principles for outreach. Bully on me for expecting narcissists to grow a spine.