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points by Scaled 2 days ago | 0 comments

Community managers must learn to never build a community on someone else's platform.

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?

[–] Scaled 2 days ago

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.)

[–] lukan 2 days ago

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 2 days ago

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.

[–] bigyabai 2 days ago

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

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

[–] lukan 2 days ago

And what thriving communities build up on those protocols?

[–] bigyabai 2 days ago

Close-knit ones, the sort that don't trade principles for outreach.

Bully on me for expecting narcissists to grow a spine.

[–] subarctic 2 days ago

If everyone listened to this advice most communities would not be built

[–] asdff 2 days ago

It used to be how all communities were built before the platforms.