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Does mastodon support groups or communities? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does mastodon support groups or communities? like lemmy the users can make groups or communities and manage them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not officially - but they'll be adding groups in one of their future updates (not 4.2, unfortunately). That will work exactly as you'd expect.

However in the meantime, people use Guppe Groups (https://a.gup.pe/), which are a type of "user" which boosts all posts sent to it to other people following it. For example, I could follow @[email protected] and anytime anyone mentions @[email protected], the post will be boosted to all other users following @[email protected].

The above is how Lemmy communities work when followed from Mastodon, as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve used this and it worked pretty well. The issue I had was when people start chatting and leave the group pinger in the convo. But that was more of an etiquette issue than a technical issue.