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   Jeff Sikes - Hire me! (box464@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 23:16:43 JST Jeff Sikes - Hire me!

   I've setup quite a few fediverse platforms. The instances are small, usually me and a few other fediverse devs that use them for testing.

   It's quiet. Very quiet.

   I've tried pulling in data from relays. But that's like opening floodgates to who knows what type of content.

   FediBuzz was nice because I could follow specific hashtags ONLY. That cut down on the noise. But that is dependent on posts using those tags.

   Is there a better way to curate content? I think so.

   #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 23:16:39 JST silverpill

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     • Astro

     @astro @box464 In ActivityPub, a group is usually a FEP-1b12 group actor. Other types of groups exist but they are less popular.

     Mastodon doesn't have such concept.

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     Astro (astro@c3d2.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 23:16:40 JST Astro

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     @box464 What is a "Group" in ActivityPub or the Mastodon client API?

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     Jeff Sikes - Hire me! (box464@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 23:16:42 JST Jeff Sikes - Hire me!

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     We need a way of discovering federated groups like NodeBB, Channels.org, Lemmy & PieFed communties. The quality of content being pumped into your instance would be much better, and not dependent on every post containing a hashtag.

     The problem is discovery. I know NodeBB forums exist, and I follow a few Channels.org accounts. I have a PieFed account and I can jump over there and look through all the communities, then copy them over to my Mastodon account.

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     Jeff Sikes - Hire me! (box464@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 23:16:42 JST Jeff Sikes - Hire me!

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     What would be nice is a platform search that can be filtered by Account type of "Group". Or a "bubble" feed that contains curated groups from the instance admins. I don't think that exists on Mastodon, and I haven't explicitly seen it on other platforms either.

     Is this the type of thing that Mastodon's FediDiscovery project could begin to solve?

     https://www.fediscovery.org/

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 08:33:51 JST silverpill

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     • Die4Ever

     @Die4ever @box464 Interesting project, but it doesn't show NodeBB and Discourse communities. I hope they will add those platforms too

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     Die4Ever (die4ever@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 08:33:52 JST Die4Ever

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     • Television

     @box464 make sure to hit the dropdown in the top left to switch between Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin. There have been some big communities moving to PieFed lately, like @movies and @television

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     Jeff Sikes - Hire me! (box464@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 08:33:53 JST Jeff Sikes - Hire me!

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     • Die4Ever

     @Die4ever Uh, yeah! That's exactly what I'm talking about. Awesome!

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     Die4Ever (die4ever@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 08:33:54 JST Die4Ever

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     @box464 how about https://lemmyverse.net/communities

     and @newcommunities