Meta is not community
There has been a lot of complaining from people not wanting to leave Farcebook because "they've built communities" there.
If losing a single social media group is enough to shatter your community you never had a community to begin with.
What you have is a massively multiplayer role playing game (MMRPG) where you are roleplaying a community. You have no idea who the other players are, where they are, what their real names are, what they look like or, most importantly, how to connect with them outside that group.
One argument I saw talked about how disenfranchised groups get pushed out of "public" spaces. Guess what? THESE ARE NOT PUBLIC SPACES. They are private data mining operations that mine every word you write to build a profile on you. If these platforms choose to do so they could hand your profile over to the FBI and authorities could be at your door in hours.
Far from being "private" your every utterance is monitored. If you think you are "safe" while "organizing" on social media you may was well go hold your meetings in the local FBI lunchroom.
This is why the right outflanked us AGAIN. Their communities are anchored in churches. They see each other's faces every week. They know each other's names, phone numbers, cars and home addresses. If someone is out of reach the odds are good that three other people know how to contact them.
That's community that can't be turned off with a power switch. It can't be deleted from a database. It isn't holding its meetings where every word is archived for authorities. If something happens to impact that community, like a church burning down, it will reassemble in short order somewhere else.
If your Facebook group goes offline, then what? Some groups have backup groups. The smarter groups are on multiple platforms but the smartest groups exist in the real world. In coffee shops or small cells. They have multiple ways to communicate.
Who really benefits from gaslighting people to keep their Facebook "communities"? It's Meta and whoever they choose to sell your info to. But it's not you. You're just a product waiting to be sold ... or sold out.
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