Where do Gramps users gather on other social media?

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I am not a great lover of Social Media. (I frantically avoid chatting in real life. So the appeal of doing so online is beyond me.) But Gramps users sharing problem and solution information is important to Gramps evolving. And social media is a huge part of that. We try to maintain a list where users can and have gathered.

Several user have suggested that Facebook’s policies have forced them to look elsewhere. What are some new places that we haven’t listed yet.

  • Mastodon.social has a #gramps tag with some activity. (Found a couple potential profiles that didn’t pan out.)

Are you active on another platform with a Gramps community? If so what are they and how do you find other other Gramps users?

Here are a few possibilities:

Based on the latest data for 2025, Perplexity.ai collated an updated list of social media platforms with significant communities, considering those with at least 1 million monthly active users:

  1. Facebook: 3.65 billion monthly active users
    Gramps groups: English, Danish, Spanish
  2. YouTube: 2.5 billion monthly active users
    search: gramps genealogy
  3. WhatsApp: 2 billion monthly active users
  4. Instagram: 2 billion monthly active users
  5. TikTok: 1.5 billion monthly active users
  6. WeChat: 1.3 billion monthly active users
  7. Reddit: 1.2 billion monthly active users
    r/gramps, r/genealogy
  8. Facebook Messenger: 979 million monthly active users
  9. Telegram: 800 million monthly active users
  10. Douyin: 752 million monthly active users
  11. Snapchat: 750 million monthly active users
  12. Kuaishou: 685 million monthly active users
  13. X (formerly Twitter): 619 million monthly active users
  14. Sina Weibo: 605 million monthly active users
  15. QQ: 558 million monthly active users
  16. LinkedIn: 482 million monthly active users
  17. Pinterest: 430 million monthly active users
  18. Quora: 400 million monthly active users
  19. Threads: 300 million monthly active users
  20. Tumblr: 135 million monthly active users
  21. BlueSky : about 27.8 million users< br />
  22. Mastodon: between 900,000 to 1.7 million monthly active users.
    tags: #gramps
  23. Google Groups: unknown userbase size
    Gramps Finland
  24. genealogy.net: a Discourse forum
    registered users only: German gramps-l
  25. geneanet: a French genealogy forum
    Discussions généalogiques>Logiciels de généalogie>Gramps
  26. genealogy.StackExchange: Genealogy & Family History
    tagged [gramps]

Citations:

[1] Social Media Users 2025 (Global Data & Statistics) | Priori Data
[2] 20+ Top Social Platforms to Grow Your Brand in 2025

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I don’t use it so I’ve no idea how valuable or otherwise it is, but it has turned up in searches I’ve made about Gramps:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gramps/

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My son suggested gramps when I was looking for a new genealogy program, this took me to this discourse.group which has been very good. I follow the Facebook group too but there is very little traffic there. I have learned so much just reading the posts from the experts that participate here. Thank you.

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Interesting that the AI missed a big one:

BlueSky at ~27.8 million users, but an open protocol so that users of Mastodon and BlueSky connect fairly easily, and growing very rapidly.

Because of their policy decisions, I personally will no longer user any Meta product (Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, Instagram) nor any X product.

WeChat is highly popular in China, and required a referral from someone in China when I last attempted to use it about 10 years ago. I’m personally not interested in the app because of that.

Discourse and github are sufficient for my needs – I’m not exactly thrilled about chatting IRL, either :slight_smile: – but I have been online in some form for multiple decades, starting with UUCP, IRC and BBSs; doing so can help connect people, at least a little bit.

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the AI ignored the 1 million directive and actually chose a cutoff of 100 million users. But Mastodon was the service that prompted this question. So it was added manually. Just as BlueSky was added from your response.

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If you know a Gramps special interest group on any Social media platform, please feel welcome to edit the top post.

Add a platform or add a link to the group on a platform.

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