c/fediverse · by pieland@piefed.social · 202d

FediGroups -- helping you share and interact across the Fediverse!

https://about.fedigroups.social/help

38 points · 6 comments · view on lemmy.world

6 Comments

ada@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 202d (5 replies)

gup.pe reborn

freamon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 202d (1 reply)

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 https://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

ada@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 202d

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

julian@activitypub.space · 1 pts · 202d (2 replies)

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

rimu@piefed.social · 3 pts · 202d

Yep.

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

Weird exclusion of all threadiverse server types, there.

ada@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 202d

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.