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