[Air-L] alternatives to closed, secret Facebook groups?

[Jakob Jünger]

Dear Charles,

so far, I only researched Telegram, never used it for organizing a group
myself. It works different than FB, but maybe could be an option. Fine
grained privacy control, storage for hosting files, simple interface for
all kinds of devices. Bots can help to get a decent comment system.
Sure, it is a bit peculiar.

By the way, I like Slack and Mattermost for organizing working groups,
if you are looking for those purposes.

Best Jakob

Am 22.11.2020 um 06:59 schrieb Charles M. Ess:
> Dear AoIRists,
>
> I hope this finds you well, despite it all.
>
> I'm wanting to know if any of you have good experience and can thereby
> recommend alternatives to a Facebook closed or secret group - i.e., a
> platform that offers the functionalities of these, but avoids
> entanglement with FB?
>
> Yes, I have some realization that, to put it in Montanan, there ain't
> nothin' pure, especially in the online world.  But there are greater
> and lesser degrees of entangelement, and these may be relevant to the
> project I have in mind.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any advice and suggestions you can share.
>
> best,
> - charles ess
>