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get updates from facebook group without facebook ?
(discuss.tchncs.de)
What type of organization is it? Could they be convinced to provide an alternative in the fediverse?
maybe - it's my local circus and they're very nice - the thing is, a lot of the other volunteers are not tech savvy, and likely won't change to a new platform unless a lot of energy is put into making the transition easy - but it might be a project for the future :))
Can you DM a bit more details? Depending on their size and budget, I can help. I can host their own Mastodon/Matrix server for less than $30/month and provide the tech support to the transition.
You’d still need an account, but I think you can plug Zapier into a group to create RSS feed items from posts.
From there you can use your RSS reader of choice, FOSS or not
There’s also the graph API if you want to DIY, also needs a token with group permissions
that sounds promising :))
I'll check that out :))
Maybe try a Matrix bridge?
Tried that for messaging once. It worked for like 2 days until facebook decided someone had "hacked" my account and I needed to reset my password. Didn't help that the matrix bridge was very flaky and nigh impossible to set back up again after it failed, without just deleting the entire matrix database and starting from scratch. Not recommended.
Which bridge did you use, if I may ask?
Mautrix facebook I think
what is that ? (:
Put simply, a bot that interfaces with external services and replicates messages to/from a Matrix chat. The software is at matrix.org
Not sure how helpful this is but in the past I used a Firefox addon called check 4 change
You can let Firefox monitor a website in the background for change.
A con of this solution is that it only works when Firefox is running.
You could also try to maybe automate it with
Or something like this https://visualping.io/blog/how-to-be-alerted-when-someone-posts-on-facebook/
I'll check that out :))
thanks for the answer :))
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