That makes sense. I totally agree. There are existing, well-established online communities outside of Facebook for this particular topic I am interested in. An

That makes sense. I totally agree. There are existing, well-established online communities outside of Facebook for this particular topic I am interested in. And now that I have found out about the Facebook group, I see why they appear to be slowly dying. OP seemed to imply it's Facebook or nothing. I disagree with that. And I think there are many examples of communities outside of Facebook that do it well in a privacy-friendly way that are well supported by its members. I am definitely making an un-forced choice to join to have access to their content. The trade-off, of course, is that I have to agree to their terms and offer my pseudo "support."