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.
https://gup.pe/ ?
that kind of works. but I think having it integrated to mastodon is better and people will actually use it
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).
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Just for reference: https://medium.com/we-distribute/the-do-everything-system-an-in-depth-review-of-hubzilla-3-0-692204177d4e
Can those groups reached via activity pub? So from actors not belonging to the corresponding instance?
in theory at least ;)
The practice looks different. At least I was not able to figure out in a reasonably short amount of time how to post as a mastodon user in the forum channel. Apart from replying.
Usually it should work by DMing the forum channel. It then takes your message and reposts it. At least with Hubzilla that should work.
Hm. I was not able to do so. Did you try? Maybe I just do not know how to configure the channel source. 🤷
What forum did you try and from where?
There’s a lot of discussion about Groups implementation on SocialHub, and there are different ways to go about it. Unfortunately no agreement has been reached yet on a standards-compliant way to implement Groups. The concept of Community goes a bit further, and for this I am involved with discussing the “Community has no Boundary” paradigm.
I love Mastodon and use it myself. But what worries me is the huge focus on Mastodon as the main application of the Fediverse. Sure, it has rightfully earned that place by doing the right things at the right time and building features that people love. But at this moment the dominance of Mastodon is becoming a self-reinforcing network effect. This phenomena exists to the extent already, that many people confuse Mastodon and Fediverse and use it interchangeably. Mastodon is an App that provides microblogging features, just one of many federated apps that should integrate and interoperate as much as possible.
The right question to ask is:
What if Fediverse Microblogging had support for Community Groups?