Today Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is starting to test community chats for Facebook groups within Messenger and those words definitely sound pretty confusing, so let’s unpack what we’re talking about here.
It’s probably easier to think of community chats as Meta’s interpretation of Discord. These will be available for Facebook groups and you can join and participate from Facebook Messenger.
To quote the horse’s mouth, “with community chats, people can connect with their communities in real time about the topics they care about on both Facebook and Messenger via text, audio, and video. The experience seamlessly blends Messenger and Facebook groups “, offering a more immediate atmosphere -” admins can now start a conversation on a topic and get answers on the fly instead of waiting for people to comment on a post. “
The person who creates the Community Chat can organize it into categories, so that group members can easily find what is most interesting to them. As an administrator, you can initiate a chat for group members on a specific topic, an event chat for an exit or meetup, a view-only chat to announce group-level updates, and an administrator-only chat to collaborate with other administrators and moderators. You can also create audio channels, and attendees then have the option to enable video once they are in the audio channel.
As widely implied so far, community chats are only accessible to members of a group. Facebook provides a variety of moderation tools to ensure the experience isn’t bad. The company obviously hopes that the real-time experience will draw people into using community chats, and if Discord’s success is anything to rely on, it might just work.
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