Comment on Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group?
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
I know that shitty AI bot all too well. Unfortunately I’ve tried and failed to get people to leave as well. I have a community of ~20k users. Sad reality is that not only does no one care but they will actively attack you for even suggesting such a thing.
Facebook knows what they’re doing. The only way to close the group is to remove each and every member, one by one, and even if you actually wanted to spend the time actually doing that (I have), they will “detect automated activity” and lock your account.
I created my own private Lemmy community. Even set up Photon as a frontend. Not 1 single user joined.
So yeah, we’re so fucked.
JustOneMoreCat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
You should be able to "archive a group as admin, which essentially shuts it down. I haven’t tried but I’ve seen it happen in other groups. And yeah, it’s really disturbing what people will accept from FB for the sake of inertia and comfort. I’ve told a couple friends about Meta using the localhost loophole for tracking and recommended they delete the apps and just use the web version if they need to, and they all still have the apps. Who even needs privacy, right? Sigh
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
It looks like at one time you could archive the group but not anymore.
JustOneMoreCat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I just took a peek and you’re right. But there is an option to “pause” a group, I didn’t explore enough to see if it could be permanent. The rule that you can only delete a group when it has no members is absurd, wtf
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Only “absurd” in the context of a user. Not really in the context of a business with 3B MAU who will not leave no matter what.