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FEP-1b12: Group federation Summary Internet forums are one of the oldest forms of social media. This document describes how they are implemented in existing Activitypub platforms using Group actors. It also introduces a new property to indicate that a <br />given object belongs to a group.

2023-05-03 00:22:55

Chris Trottier via Fediverse News

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Despite only being validated in February, I think Group federation has been a smashing success for the Fediverse.

I use Fediverse groups every day.

And if you’re interacting with this post, so are you.

Fediverse groups even make Mastodon that much more extensible despite Mastodon itself not officially supporting groups yet.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-1b12.md

@fediversenews

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2023-05-03 00:26:52

Toni :mastodon:

coloco@mastodon.social

@atomicpoet Federacion de Grupos?

Podrías explicarlo mejor?, gracias.

cc/ @p4g

Mnnn, acabo de ver que >>>>> @fediversenews es un grupo tambien, pero repito, ¿como funcionan y para que sirven?
cc/ @xikufrancesc

2023-05-03 00:34:18

Ed Ross

edross@mas.to

@atomicpoet

I was surprised to learn how easy it is to make a new group with https://a.gup.pe/ - just search for the group you want and it is is auto-created for you if not already made.

@fediversenews

2023-05-07 02:21:04

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

HistoPol@mastodon.social

@coloco
@atomicpoet

I second this, how can I use, Facebook like (?) Groups...

a) on #Mastodon or
b) on other #Fedi platforms.

@p4g @fediversenews

2023-05-07 02:35:10

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@HistoPol @coloco You’re posting to a group right now by posting to @fediversenews. It looks more like a group on Friendica than Mastodon, however.

2023-05-07 02:52:50

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

HistoPol@mastodon.social

@atomicpoet
So, this is probably like setting up a joint mail address on an e-mail server that forwards mails (posts) to the specified people of the group, correct?

What I would need, however, is to thickly "categorize" contacts into group, so as to be more targeted.

E.g. not all people who enjoy #UKpol are interested in #History, etc.

@coloco @fediversenews

2023-05-07 03:29:09

eshep

eshep@social.trom.tf

By FB-like, do you mean some sort of membership/access control? Not sure if there's an explicit feature that supports this, if someone knows, I'd love to hear about it.

My guess is this could be sorta doable by creating a forum account and adjusting the security for it so that posts are not visible to the public. Then all you should need to do is curate the contacts. Friendica has a public list of all its forums which can used from anywhere across the fediverse.

2023-05-07 04:29:38

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@HistoPol @coloco Well, the other difference is that @fediversenews is moderated. I can remove posts from a group, and also ban malicious actors from participating to the group.

2023-05-07 10:03:26

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@HistoPol

It's so easy that you probably don't even notice you're doing it already now.

You follow the group exactly like you follow a Mastodon user.

At least in the cases of Guppe, Lemmy, /kbin and Friendica groups/forums, you post to them by mentioning them like you'd mention a Mastodon user. Interaction with groups/forums on Hubzilla and (streams) is somewhat different; I've yet to find out how well it works.

@Chris Trottier Yes, @Fediverse News runs on the #Friendica node venera.social.

@t̳̿͟͞o̳̿͟͞n̳̿͟͞i :mastodon:

2023-05-07 10:43:45

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

In the case of streams, you can use bang-tags or @-mentions for public groups, or if your system supports local or remote wall posts you can just do that instead. For private groups the initial post sort of needs to be a DM for hopefully obvious reasons. In any case if you just select the group as the audience from the permission dropdown, we'll figure it out and just do it.

2023-05-07 14:48:08