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ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• freamon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not really.

  Gup.pe groups were genuine ActivityPub Groups, like Lemmy communities, whereas these ‘FediGroup’ things are just Mastodon bots. They’re a ‘Service’, aka the automated version of a ‘Person’, so they’re no use to anyone on platforms (like Lemmy) that can only follow Groups.

  The most similar recent thing to gup.pe is ovo.st

  Compare:

  curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse | jq -r .type   
  => Group   
  curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://ovo.st/club/askfedi | jq -r .type  
  => Group
  
  with
  
  curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction | jq -r .type  
  => Service
  

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  • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah. That’s disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though.

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• julian@activitypub.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can't Piefed, et al. do everything a.gup.pe/FediGroups could do, and more?

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  • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep, but to get those features you have to access it from the piefed/lemmy instance. gup.pe/friendica style groups predate lemmy though, and were designed to be accessed from your mastodon/fediverse account, rather than being signed in to directly.

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  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep.

    FediGroups works with all the popular server types – Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, Catodon, Friendica

    Weird exclusion of all threadiverse server types, there.

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