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.
Assuming your group has a considerable amount of non tech savvy people, I would suggest Friendica just for the familiarity, since it’s supposed to be like facebook and it would be easier for people to use. I don’t know if it has groups though. You might also sacrifice admin/mod capabilities. I’m not familiar how good friendica’s admin tools are (if any).
It does have groups! And they’re even interoperable with Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin groups. The experience is definitely very Facebook like, and there are themes that make it even more so.
On the other hand, every instance I’ve ever been on has run into serious lag issues and/or collapsed entirely… Hoping that’s not universal or else gets fixed soon.
I think diaspora is more Facebook-like and more user friendly
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.