@Kristoff Bonne 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 We don't have to implement them.

#Mastodon feels like it has to implement them. The #Fediverse doesn't have to implement them because they are already implemented.

@Fediverse News is on #Friendica which is not a modified Mastodon instance, but a project of its very own. When Mastodon was launched in 2016, Friendica had already been around for 6 years with a full-blown group/forum functionality.

Groups/forums in the Fediverse are actually older than the Fediverse itself.