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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 17:24:58 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   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.

   So, if you have a Chirp.Social groups, either move to #Guppe (https://a.gup.pe) (as suggested by Chirp.Social), or if I may, to #FediaIO (https://fedia.io), an #Mbin [flagship] instance.

   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?

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 17:32:03 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • FediGroups Admin

     Okay, so I just discovered a new platform/service called #FediGroups / #FediGroupsSocial.

     It's still on its testing phase, and creation of new groups is by approval.

     See: https://about.fedigroups.social for more info.

     #Fediverse #Groups #SocialWeb @hello

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     Rimu (rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 17:35:20 JST Rimu

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     @youronlyone Give https://piefed.social a try. It federates with Lemmy and Mbin.

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 17:41:55 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Rimu

     @rimu Thank you! First time I heard of #PieFed!

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     db0 (db0@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 21:55:38 JST db0

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     @youronlyone #lemmy and #kbin are all about federated groups. Lemmy also uses the ! Notation

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 15:25:31 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     Attached a screenshot of the email blast, for those whose software can not see edit changes from the original post.

     #ChirpSocial #Fediverse #Groups

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     Angua :spinny_fox_disability: (anguadelphine@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 18:50:53 JST Angua :spinny_fox_disability:

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     • FediGroups Admin

     @youronlyone@c.im
     
     Excellent; thank you for posting this.
     
     Aguppe does work with older Masto and fully with Sharkey, but the specification does not work well if at all on Firefish.
     
     Firefish has its built in group feature, but only for other Firefish Instances.
     
     Anything to extend reach across the Fedi is good news.
     
     The name alone is very encouraging.
     
     @hello@fedigroups.social