This is for the Laravel Philippines community use only
Q: What is the argument for a community outside of facebook.
In the Philippines, tech groups are a faceboook group thing, because we pinoys generally like to use social media, despite the issues other countries might have regarding privacy. However,we need a forum like place to be able to link with the original founders of the facebook group, who were previously admins but now were kicked out. The reason that was given being a semi-satirical post that the original admin posted and changing the rules to STILL ALLOW freedom of expression.
This is the alternative path to be able to continue the work that the original founders started.
Q: There is an existing reddit r/laravel group already, why not post there - isn't this wrong?
As we know, that is the global audience of laravel and it was intended for everyone across the globe to join and connect with the Laravel "officlal" community. So, basically this subreddit is going to be the same but for Pinoys only. It is intended to link from the laravelphilippines.org website.
Taylor Otwell did raise the issue of official partners of Laravel or products to avoid misrepresenting what is official and what is not. As we know it is a large ecosystem that includes several products developed for Laravel including Laravel Forge, Laravel Cloud, Laravel Breeze, etc. We do not intend to misrepresent Laravel here, we are simply reprsenting the community of people who use Laravel, in the Philippines.
In general there is such a thing as fair-use as well.