Meta has quietly launched Communities on Fb Messenger, following the rollout of Communities in WhatsApp in 2022. With the brand new characteristic, you possibly can join with others instantly on Messenger – the brand new Communities is just not tied to a Fb Group.
We make that distinction clear in order to not confuse this new characteristic with Neighborhood Chats, which launched in Messenger in 2022 as a manner for folks to attach with different members of Fb Teams.
So this isn’t that. Communities allow you to create devoted areas for real-time communication in Messenger independently of any Fb Teams, and all members of a Neighborhood can see all chat content material.
Every Neighborhood contains a devoted Dwelling house the place admins can share updates and bulletins, and as much as 5,000 folks can be part of a Neighborhood via shareable invitations. Every Neighborhood can have a number of group chats on numerous matters.
Whereas this characteristic works similarly to the one of many similar title present in WhatsApp, the important thing distinction is that the Messenger Communities are linked to Fb’s social graph – you possibly can invite folks to a Neighborhood simply based mostly on their Fb profile, you needn’t have their telephone quantity like in WhatsApp.
Communities on Messenger is now rolling out to all customers globally.
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