# Set up a podcast and other types of communities?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-a-podcast-and-other-types-of-communities/56919>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [04.Февраль.2017 22:14:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-a-podcast-and-other-types-of-communities/56919 "2017-02-04T22:14:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [06.Февраль.2017 17:31:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-a-podcast-and-other-types-of-communities/56919/4 "2017-02-06T17:31:07Z")

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There is a huge difference between what the two of us are describing though.

Whereas getting organised to do some grassroots Discourse evangelism would require just a few hours from me and whoever wants to join the effort, what you describe is a massive engineering project which would also be a huge risk. Facebook tried to make such a thing with [Rooms](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rooms-facebooks-attempt-to-kill-online-forums/34105). They failed, and they didn’t even have to make money from it!

For the foreseeable future we are only in the community _hosting_ business, not in the community _generation/curation/management_ business such as Reddit, or Imzy.

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