Do you have one and do you think Facebook groups are a viable Reddit alternative? I hear they’re pretty popular.

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    1 year ago

    I have one still but the only reason it still exists is because my fantasy football group has a messenger group that it’s used for to coordinate draft times.

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    1 year ago

    Closed mine a long time ago, I think back when Edward Snowden did the whole NSA whistleblowing. Don’t miss it.

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    I have two. One I use for family and to buy things on marketplace, the other I use to follow my job’s social media. I haven’t tried Facebook groups, though from what I can tell with Insta, “Threads,” and Facebook groups, Meta seems to be trying to reclaim their social media monopoly, which feels scummy.

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    Nope, never have. It surprises me how many people my age use it though. Groups might technically be viable but Facebook wasn’t designed to be used like reddit, so you could use it but I doubt there would be many interesting communities to browse.

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      1 year ago

      And the sorting algoritmus is terrible. I’m in one local facebook group and the top post is somebody looking for a help for that evening… month ago. That post didn’t get more reactions/likes than others, just Facebook somehow decided I should see that and not an important large discussion about important topic.

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    1 year ago

    I use mine for several different wildlife groups like spider identification, hoverflies, natural history museum. There are some good groups on there but I think it depends on how they are moderated as to how good they are.

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    I doubt it I am in one Facebook group but that’s for messaging purposes. Doesn’t have the same way to interact with posts as sites like Lemmy and redit do

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    1 year ago

    I have one mostly for msgr, which i pretty much exclusively use to find illicit substances so… 🤷‍♂️ do with that what you will lol

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      1 year ago

      You dont need Facebook for Messenger. I deactivated mine so that I dont lose the contacts

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        1 year ago

        True…

        But then I wouldn’t be able to randomly fb stalk someone I used to work with like 10 years ago who randomly popped in my head and then get kinda bitter cuz it looks like shit’s going significantly better for them than me…

        Not that I’d do that or anything…

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    1 year ago

    yes, primarily because there are facebook groups that fit specific topics of interest. Sadly old school forums have migrated to the way of Facebook

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    1 year ago

    I do, but it’s only for keeping in contact with older family that aren’t on any other platform. I log in like once every few months at the most.