Meta has quietly launched Communities on Facebook Messenger, following the rollout of Communities in WhatsApp in 2022. With the new feature, you can connect with others directly on Messenger – the new Communities is not tied to a Facebook Group.
We make that distinction clear so as to not confuse this new feature with Community Chats, which launched in Messenger in 2022 as a way for people to connect with other members of Facebook Groups.
So this is not that. Communities let you create dedicated spaces for real-time communication in Messenger independently of any Facebook Groups, and all members of a Community can see all chat content.
Each Community features a dedicated Home space where admins can share updates and announcements, and up to 5,000 people can join a Community through shareable invites. Each Community can have multiple group chats on various topics.
While this feature works in a similar fashion to the one of the same name found in WhatsApp, the key difference is that the Messenger Communities are connected to Facebook’s social graph – you can invite people to a Community just based on their Facebook profile, you don’t need to have their phone number like in WhatsApp.
Communities on Messenger is now rolling out to all users globally.
