FediGroups : Help
about.fedigroups.social
    • freamon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      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 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.zoneEnglish
        3·
        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.

      • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        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.