▲ 37 ▼ FediGroups -- helping you share and interact across the Fediverse! (about.fedigroups.social) submitted 8 months ago by pieland@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago (5 children) gup.pe reborn permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] freamon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 child) Not really. Gup.pe groups were genuine ActivityPub Groups, like Lemmy communities, whereas these 'FediGroup' things are just Mastodon bots. They're a 'Service', aka the automated version of a 'Person', so they're no use to anyone on platforms (like Lemmy) that can only follow Groups. The most similar recent thing to gup.pe is https://ovo.st/ Compare: curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse | jq -r .type => Group curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://ovo.st/club/askfedi | jq -r .type => Group with curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction | jq -r .type => Service permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago Ah. That's disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though. permalink fedilink source parent [–] julian@activitypub.space 1 point 8 months ago (2 children) Can't Piefed, et al. do everything a.gup.pe/FediGroups could do, and more? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago Yep, but to get those features you have to access it from the piefed/lemmy instance. gup.pe/friendica style groups predate lemmy though, and were designed to be accessed from your mastodon/fediverse account, rather than being signed in to directly. permalink fedilink source parent [–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago Yep. FediGroups works with all the popular server types -- Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, Catodon, Friendica Weird exclusion of all threadiverse server types, there. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] freamon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 child) Not really. Gup.pe groups were genuine ActivityPub Groups, like Lemmy communities, whereas these 'FediGroup' things are just Mastodon bots. They're a 'Service', aka the automated version of a 'Person', so they're no use to anyone on platforms (like Lemmy) that can only follow Groups. The most similar recent thing to gup.pe is https://ovo.st/ Compare: curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse | jq -r .type => Group curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://ovo.st/club/askfedi | jq -r .type => Group with curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction | jq -r .type => Service permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago Ah. That's disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago Ah. That's disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] julian@activitypub.space 1 point 8 months ago (2 children) Can't Piefed, et al. do everything a.gup.pe/FediGroups could do, and more? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago Yep, but to get those features you have to access it from the piefed/lemmy instance. gup.pe/friendica style groups predate lemmy though, and were designed to be accessed from your mastodon/fediverse account, rather than being signed in to directly. permalink fedilink source parent [–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago Yep. FediGroups works with all the popular server types -- Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, Catodon, Friendica Weird exclusion of all threadiverse server types, there. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago Yep, but to get those features you have to access it from the piefed/lemmy instance. gup.pe/friendica style groups predate lemmy though, and were designed to be accessed from your mastodon/fediverse account, rather than being signed in to directly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago Yep. FediGroups works with all the popular server types -- Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, Catodon, Friendica Weird exclusion of all threadiverse server types, there. permalink fedilink source parent