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Just an idea, what if mastodon had community groups? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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original thread; https://lemmy.ml/post/64811/comment/55588

I think I can agree on this one. been looking for writers on fediverse. real ones that makes novels and such. it seems that if mastodon has community groups that users from other instances can join. that can fix isolated communities and users especially if they are on single user instances.

for an example if you had a community for artists. specific genres ones maybe like horror manga. users from other instances can join and you can post a toot under that community.

single user instances or people that are interested in things but on another instance may want to join that specific community.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

https://gup.pe/ ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

that kind of works. but I think having it integrated to mastodon is better and people will actually use it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Apparently this has been discussed many times but is unlikely to happen. Other Fediverse projects do have groups though (Hubzilla, Friendica) or are working on them (Pleroma).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Just for reference: https://medium.com/we-distribute/the-do-everything-system-an-in-depth-review-of-hubzilla-3-0-692204177d4e

Forum channels are particularly noteworthy because they are analogous to Facebook Groups.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Can those groups reached via activity pub? So from actors not belonging to the corresponding instance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

in theory at least ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

actually some instances already show their hobbys in their name, just like (bla bla bla).beer and bookwor.m(bla bla) and so on. ^^

[–] kinetix 1 points 3 years ago

Friendica has forums which do what you're suggesting. They are somewhat interoperable with other parts of the fediverse, but hey, it's easy enough to run a friendica instance.