I run a humhub instance. It is very similar to fb from years ago. I cannot get anyone to use it though, just me posting for myself. I kinda use it a journal now, with pics and short paragraph or two about what I’ve been up to.

For group messages, I had a hard time getting people to move off of fb messenger. Tried good old text messaging, but everyone has iphones and can’t figure out the difference between I message and text. Also a few of them don’t even have a cell #, so they just can’t text.

I was successful in getting most of everyone over to signal, and I created accounts for my sister and her kids that don’t have phone #'s.

I use kijiji here in Canada, instead of marketplace. It had higher quality buyers and sellers anyway. Less annoying people.