What is the ultimate community chat platform for a group of 500+ *regular people* in 2025?

* Is it a WhatsApp Community w/ separate channels?
* Telegram could be perfect, but most regular people I know don't use it... but they might onboard specifically for the community

For meaningful engagement, it would need to be near-zero learning curve & likely needs to use a platform that's already part of their daily life...

Would love thoughts!

Executive Poolboy at Poolsuite & Vacation®

A few of my CPG friends still use Facebook groups :p dadgang hats, hubman and chubgirl. For the younger folks it’s Instagram broadcast

🕯️They/them. Scaled cos from 0-$300k in arr, 7-35 employees, 0-100k users. Now I make candles that give people love, joy, and delight at humankind.place

Interesting... if IG broadcast was a bit more built out for communities (vs one way announcements) it'd be a strong contender

I have a small groupchat on Instagram for my candles and a paid version (which comes with the candle club subscription) on here. I guess since you have so many people you need more options for moderating tools!