Post ATCdhmkvXL4M3dx6PY by jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu
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 (DIR) Post #ATCdhfjxcX8YIcRjQu by atomicpoet@mastodon.social
       2023-03-02T01:18:46Z
       
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       New Fediverse (Friendica) groups that @davidslifka made to help develop the Fediverse further:• Dashboard metrics: @dashboard• Hosting: @hosting• Community onboarding & organizing: @spreadmastodon• Moderating: @moderation• Algorithms: @algorithms• Identity verification: @identity• Fediverse media: @fedimediaI'm going to start using these.@fediversenews
       
 (DIR) Post #ATCdhgiE0TLJJWdrMm by maegul@mas.to
       2023-03-02T01:28:36Z
       
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       @atomicpoetGroups are the best feature on Mastodon, except for the part that they’re not a mastodon thing!There isn’t a more practical demonstration of the value of ActivityPub/Fediverse that I’ve seen.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATCdhhWYzJbnpeC3pQ by atomicpoet@mastodon.social
       2023-03-02T01:32:42Z
       
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       @maegul I've never even thought about it in those terms, but it's true that @fediversenews is followed by a lot of people, and used quite often.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATCdhi60rVxtbamN5E by MetalSamurai@mas.to
       2023-03-02T09:52:09Z
       
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       @atomicpoet @maegul @fediversenews My main issue with Friendica groups is that the support has been kind of shoehorned in to Mastodon. They “work”, but not the way I’d prefer. I’d rather they were presented as a separate thing, and also that my group posts didn’t clutter up the timeline of my other followers who probably aren’t interested (and if they were, they could join the group).
       
 (DIR) Post #ATCdhjlsdL36njNJyq by MetalSamurai@mas.to
       2023-03-02T09:54:01Z
       
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       @atomicpoet @maegul @fediversenews A lesser goal would be “private” or “closed” groups. I’m aware that this amounts to a flimsy curtain rather than a more substantial barrier for privacy, but it can still be useful to foster more open discussions. Maybe this would be tied in to E2EE private DMs. Or maybe not.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATCdhmkvXL4M3dx6PY by jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu
       2023-03-02T10:31:10Z
       
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       @Kevin Davidson @Chris Trottier @maegul @Fediverse News Maybe you're unaware of it, but #Friendica isn't a group add-on that was created and bolted onto #Mastodon just this year. Friendica isn't the next #Guppe. And the #Fediverse is not just Mastodon plus Mastodon enhancements.Friendica is a "Facebook killer" social network that was launched in 2010 (no, I'm not kidding) with the intent of federating with everything that exists. It was the second free, non-commercial, decentralised, federated social network ever AFAIK, and it was the most powerful and feature-rich one until its own creator made #Hubzilla.Friendica alone can do just about everything that Mastodon can plus a whole lot on top. And it had groups/forums right from the beginning. Like, 6 years before there was Mastodon and 13 years before now.Friendica doesn't even use #ActivityPub internally because it's 8 years older than the official standardisation of ActivityPub. It supports ActivityPub now, and it has started doing so as soon as it could. But ActivityPub is still only one out of many extras.There are four reasons why Friendica is becoming the main group platform for Mastodon now. One, Mastodon doesn't have groups built-in, you need something external. Two, it's less cumbersome than Guppe and more compatible with Mastodon than #Lemmy. Three, it's only now that the Mastodon crowd is slowly discovering Friendica. Four, Hubzilla is too complicated, it's overkill as a "group add-on for Mastodon," and even fewer people know it.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATE2LAasbmeSgHMKMy by maegul@mas.to
       2023-03-02T01:41:12Z
       
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       @atomicpoet Relatively speaking, I look at @fediversenews quite a bit. That’s partly out of my interest. But it’s also due in large part to the quality of relatively focused discussion where I know what kind of “social media” activity I’m opting into. An endless feed of random content, even when specific to the small amount of people I follow, can be exhausting and often undesirable./end of anti-microblogging rant.TLDR: groups+microblogging is awesome!