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.
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?