Facebook groups have to make up their own policies, because Facebook, in spite of its size does not improve
Since the Solar Photography group is using Facebook methods. When any of the group runs into things, it is also a Solar Photography group issue. Is “joining” the same as following? One day it might be useful for the group to use servers that support sharing and collaboration on solar images. I think about things like this as Director of The Internet Foundation for the last 26 years.
I was writing partly to see if the group is responsive and how it works on Facebook (I have not used Facebook much even though I have been using it for many years. The concept of “follow” is a bit skewed. I do not want “everything” from a group, if they have a good archive and index (Facebook does not). If I unfollow, then I am not part of the group. For most groups on Facebook they seem to be private. The methods I use with a more open group (to keep track, to be involved, to contribute) are made more difficult when every group (on Facebook) does their own thing. Navigation on Facebook suffers. On the Internet, every website and every large website hosting content for individuals and groups “does their own thing”.
If it takes me weeks to figure out an individual solution, that cost per user (on Facebook) is something FB ought to address. It is a loss, a leakage, a waste that FB could address “for all”. I say much the same thing for Twitter(X) and thousands of large groups, corporations, governments, nonprofits. I have been The Internet Foundation for 26 years now. But I am slowing down and want to look more at data (solar, seismic, gravitational, nano micro and milli Hertz electromagnetic.
Kay Hoevel I have done that, but every post from Solar Photography is showing up on my timeline. The other groups (all private) are not posting on my timeline. So I have never run into this before. Maybe the administrator of the Solar Photography group has to click a button. But then members now might not like that.
