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As far as I know, they work in different ways. Mastodon Groups seems more like a closed forum kind of thing?
Guppe is more like a discussion list which distributes interesting posts across the Fediverse.
Also, it is not clear if Mastodon groups will work outside Mastodon. It's very important that the Fediverse remains diverse and open to non-Masto server types.
nichu42
@feditips
Doesn't the upcoming native support for groups (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19059) make the Guppe service obsolete? (Serious question, I have not compared the features and I've never really used Gruppe).
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I am not sure. If hosting costs alone are 200 a month then they would need 2400 a year just for hosting plus the cost of labour for maintenance.
Perhaps the admin @datatitian could comment?
Lapineige
@feditips dumb question, isn't the necessary level already archived (and by a lot) ?
I still think it's good to give it some spotlight even if that's the case, I'm only wondering if its survival (and middle term durability) is assured.
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Mastodon groups is not the same as Guppe groups, they work in different ways.
And, even if they were the same it is really dangerous to hand over all the Fediverses features to the same development team. The point of the Fediverse is to spread out across many servers and many kinds of software, so that no one has power over it all.
Also many servers don't run Mastodon software. Guppe is server agnostic, whereas Mastodon Groups seems to require a Mastodon server.
Jeff ( #TeamNormal )
The future of Guppe was largely decided with support for Groups expected in an upcoming Mastodon release.
Daniel
@nichu42@blueplanet.social @feditips@mstdn.social In my opinion Guppe was already kinda obsolete after they added the feature to follow hashtags.
The advantage with hashtags is that you don't have every reply to the initial post that mentioned Guppe in your timeline.
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Tony
@feditips This is a good idea to connect with people. I'm sad it is the first I am hearing about it.
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