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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.

codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…

@fediversenews

fep

Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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

#history #ukpol @Toni
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eshep

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.

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Mike Macgirvin

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.
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