@Friendica Support Good evening everyone. To help the mastodon users of my new instance poliversity.it (a spin off for researchers and journalists, born from my instance friendica poliverso.org) I started promoting the use of the Friendica forums, as a way to make up for the lack of topics all inside of mastodon.
I then discovered that a fediverse project already exists, managed by the "immers-space" cooperative, which aims to create real groups (
https://a.gup.pe/) and the mechanism on which it is based it is the same as the Friendica forums (re-share messages addressed to the group address which will be [groupname] + @ a.gup.pe ) .
I confess that I don't like that immers-space centrally manages a service for the entire fediverse, while the possibility that any friendly user can autonomously manage a group/forum seems to me more adherent to the spirit of the fediverse.
However, I have found that gup groups have extremely good performance compared to Friendica, reposting received messages in real time (and on any instance!), while Friendica groups have a much higher latency.
What can be the reason? This is a question related to the higher performance of gup servers compared to those of poliverso.org, or it depends on the design of friendica compared to that of gup (here the github link
https://github.com/immers-space/guppe )
(sorry for my english)
With a #Friendica #forum, on the other hand, I have observed a relatively constant latency of a few seconds to 1-2 minutes.
Perhaps @Μαθθίας/ξ ✔ can contribute something more competent.
In addition, a forum also offers a relatively well-structured presentation, while guppe is just a pure distribution list.