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?
Wir schreiben das Jahr 2011. Der Elektrische Reporter erklärt #Microblogging am Beispiel von #Twitter und lässt sogar die Kritik an geschlossenen Plattformen nicht aus. (#Fediverse gabs ja noch nicht.)
Ein echtes Zeitzeugnis. Spannend, was seither daraus geworden ist. Wie die Kritik an der Belanglosigkeit seiner Inhalte wich und Twitter zu einem bedeutsamen politischen Sprachrohr wurde. Wie sich Hass und Hetze breit machten und wie es nun den Bach runter geht. Wie es mal von offenen APIs profitierte und nun keine externen Apps mehr zulässt.
I had forgotten that I had "-webkit transform: rotate (20deg)" on body in my local safari.css!
I just found this June 2012 photo of my laptop screen, which I took after rebooting when my browser loaded my local user style 😄
Featuring one of the posts from @evan on identi.ca (his creation!) and my posts had been sent from StatusNet (his creation too) on iPhone. This page is the “home” I had set up for @w3c
It’s still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.
> Mastodon-the-software is used by far by the most people on fedi. The biggest instance, mastodon.social, is home to over 200.000 active accounts as of this writing. This is roughly 1/10th of the whole #Fediverse, on a single instance.
> Worse, Mastodon-the-software is often identified as the whole social network, obscuring the fact that Fediverse is a much broader system comprised of a much more diverse software.
In the blogpost ⬆️ I mention the history of #StatusNet (the software), #OStatus (the protocol), and identi.ca (the biggest instance). Identi.ca used to be about 1/10th of all of "OStatus-verse". Then it got redeployed using incompatible software and tore the heart out of that decentralized social network.
I feel this history is very relevant today, as mastodon.social is about 1/10th (by monthly active accounts). And continues to grow.
It will depend on the platform. For example, #Friendica (and to an extent #Hubzilla and #Streams), the owner of the group (and anyone else given moderation access) can block accounts. There is also chirp.social which can also block accounts.
Then there is #GNUsocial, which is a rebranded #StatusNet itself a rebranded #Laconica (the first #Fediverse software, c. 2008) have built-in groups feature; which IIRC, can also block users if needed.
Personally, services like Guppe really need to add moderation features, otherwise, what you just described will more likely happen.
so. das archiv ist gezippt. frau frohmann schrieb neulich, dass das radikalste aktuell meist sei, etwas nicht mehr zu tun. und das ist deeper, als einiges, was ich in letzter zeit gelesen habe.