Two years ago, Facebook introduced Community Chats, allowing people in Facebook Groups to create chat rooms for specific topics, similar to Discord. Recently, Facebook Messenger added this feature directly for Communities.
These new Communities allow users to create groups to discuss shared interests without the need for formal Groups. Messenger users can discover and join interesting chat rooms, with each group having a maximum of 5,000 members.
Meta states that these group chats are ideal for organizations, schools, or communities to create spaces for various subtopic discussions, differing from the format of Facebook Groups.
Source: TechCrunch
TLDR: Facebook added Community Chats for Groups two years ago, and Messenger now offers this feature directly for Communities, allowing users to create chat rooms for specific topics of interest with a maximum of 5,000 members. Ideal for organizations and communities to foster discussions separate from formal Facebook Groups.
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