I have seen a.gup.pe communities show up in piefed back when that was still functional, but trying to pull in a remote community from fedigroups.social only results in an error. Is this due to a technical incompability? @rimu@piefed.social
I have seen a.gup.pe communities show up in piefed back when that was still functional, but trying to pull in a remote community from fedigroups.social only results in an error. Is this due to a technical incompability? @rimu@piefed.social
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freamon@preferred.social · 5 pts · 343d
Nah, I don't they're real Groups (in the ActivityPub sense). They're just accounts running on a Mastodon instance by the looks of it, which doesn't support Group creation (a.gup.pe was it's own software).
If you replicate trying to join a fedigroup.social group from PieFed or Lemmy, you get:
curl https://fedigroups.social/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3Aknitting%40fedigroups.social | jq .reveals that the
application/activity+jsonlink is forhttps://fedigroups.social/users/knittingand if you then do
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://fedigroups.social/users/knitting | jq .it reveals the 'type' to be a Service, not a Group. (a Service is a bot, so pretty much the same as a Person, but with automated activities)