If you haven't heard, sadly, #ChirpSocial, one of the popular #ActivityPub “groups” platform, is shutting down “probably” on February 29th.
In an email they sent to admins, the owner and developer can no longer support https://chirp.social financially as they failed to find a new job after they were laid off by #Google last year.
This reminds us the importance of having a built-in groups feature, and one where the groups feature actually federates.
Back in 2008, when the #Fediverse was born, we did have a built-in federated groups in #Laconica / #StatusNet (today known as #GNUsocial). We used bang (!) instead of at (@). A built-in groups feature is more stable as established instances can host them.
Today, we have #Friendica and #Hubzilla (as well as #Streams-based instances) to fill in that, as groups is a built-in feature in those software products. It's just a matter of finding an instance that's open to hosting groups for any topic for the ActivityPub protocol.
That said, any Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams-based instances you suggest for groups?
@Susan60 Hi, I apologize. I've decided to indefinitely shut down the autobooster since I realized that this is a really ugly workaround (there's just no way as far as the software I used goes to even determine whether it's a reply or posted by a user that has #nobot in their bio) for #GoToSocial's lack of support for relays as well as #guppe and #chirpsocial not federating well with GTS (I can't follow groups from there).
Hey #fediverse, does anyone know if a.gup.pe and chirp.social has some sort of #API which lists all groups in it? I've just thought of an idea to make this #GoToSocial instance I manage federate even more instances than just 600+ servers, which is to #massfollow them all with a #followbot. Yeah it's a really bad thing to use against normal instances (it's gonna annoy humans behind the accounts), but it shouldn't be a problem if I just follow group accounts, right? :sagume_think:
I'm gonna also try mass following every community in #Lemmy and #kbin as well.
Das im Fediverse existierende Gruppenkonzept findet man z. B. bei gup.pe welches jedoch in meinen Augen auf Grund der fehlenden Optionen und Moderierbarkeit ungeeignet ist oder in den Friendica Foren. Nun bin ich vor kurzen auf chirp.social (Github) gestoßen, einen reinen Gruppenserver fürs Fediverse mit richtigen Profil und Moderation.
Nun würde mich natürlich Eure Meinung dazu interessieren. Also legt los! 😀
I just had a bit of a look at kbin.social and I have to say, kbin looks really impressive!
If you've never heard of kbin, it's a fediverse platform specifically focusing on groups. Broadly speaking, similar to lemmy, the goal is to create a fediverse take on the reddit experience. However, kbin also integrates fediverse groups like gup.pe, chirp and friendica groups, and that is a killer feature as far as I'm concerned!
We've been running a lemmy instance for a few months now, but it might be time to look at spinning up our own kbin instance too!