A room with no windows, against a site with a front door.
Structural claims last checked against Facebook Groups in September 2026
Facebook Groups solved distribution by putting your community where everyone already was. The cost is that the community only exists in there. The knowledge your members build is not readable from the open web, it is organised by a feed rather than by topic, and the account that carries it is a personal social profile.
Every row is something you can check by opening both products yourself.
The differences that actually change what you can do.
A public community here is readable by anyone, indexed by search engines, and open to answer engines through an allow-listed robots.txt and an llms.txt manifest.
Group posts sit behind an account wall. Years of accumulated answers are invisible to search, which is why groups constantly re-answer the same question.
Every post, question, poll and quiz has a clean canonical URL, a real author byline, tags and structured data. It stays findable long after it is written.
A group post is a feed item. It surfaces, it gets comments, and it sinks. Search inside a large group is the standing complaint of every group admin.
Members show up as a professional profile with a headline, an activity record and a public, ATS-friendly CV they can link anywhere.
Facebook attaches the contribution to a personal social account, which is why so many people participate less in professional groups than they otherwise would.
Your community lives at its own subdomain with roles, three privacy modes, its own sitemap and its own llms.txt. You can put that address on a business card.
A group URL is a numeric path inside facebook.com that opens a login prompt for anyone who is not already a member.
We would rather tell you than have you find out later.
Your members are already there and already logged in. Nothing we do changes that, and for a purely local or social group it is a real advantage.
Nobody has to make an account. For a casual group, that is often the only requirement that matters.
Stay on Facebook for a social or purely local group where nothing needs to outlive the feed.
Come here when the group is producing knowledge worth finding, and worth crediting.
Same conversations, on an address you can link to and a search engine can read.
We never quote a competitor's price, fee or user numbers, because we cannot verify them and a wrong figure would discredit the rest. Everything above is structural. See what we actually ship.
