Mashable: Meta says that Community Chats will give users a new way to talk to each other.

Meta announced on Tuesday that it has started testing the Community Chats feature that will soon be available on Facebook and Messenger.

The goal of Community Chats is to start conversations between friends, family, and neighbors, as well as within communities. It also sorts conversations so that people in a given community can quickly find ones about topics that interest them.

Meta says that Community Chats will give users a new way to talk to each other. Using text, audio, and video in real-time, members of the community can talk about a wide range of topics in more depth than they could with simple messages alone. Members of Messenger Groups and Facebook Groups can use Community Chats to talk to each other right away and have meaningful conversations without leaving their own platforms. It encourages its members to talk to each other in "real-time with larger communities around shared interests."

Also, the administrator of Community Chat will be able to put conversations into groups so that users can easily find the topics that most interest them. They will also have a number of tools at their disposal to keep the conversations friendly and respectful. Admins will be able to block, mute, or throw them out of the community. This will also take care of deleting their messages and a certain amount of moderation on its own. Meta further claims that this new conversation feature would easily integrate Messenger and Facebook Groups.

All of this probably sounds similar because Meta is trying to work like Discord. Like Meta's Community Chats, Discord's Community channels are based around a specific topic or hobby, and administrators can set up as many separate channels as they want for members to talk about different aspects of that theme. The rules for moderating are also similar to those that Discord has put in place in recent months to stop the spread of hateful content.