@FediTips If I reply to a post from someone who has restricted who can follow them, then who can see my reply?
Is it safe to say that if I create an account somewhere with follow requests restriction turned on and boost all @ mentions I get, then this account will act as a kind of private group on Mastodon?
About groups, is there still any work going on to implement native groups in Mastodon?
@MastodonEngineering #mastodev #activitypub #groups
Is it safe to say that if I create an account somewhere with follow requests restriction turned on and boost all @ mentions I get, then this account will act as a kind of private group on Mastodon?
About groups, is there still any work going on to implement native groups in Mastodon?
@MastodonEngineering #mastodev #activitypub #groups
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in reply to Arne D. S. Haldorsen • • •Restrictions on who can follow you do not directly affect the visibility of your posts.
Post visibility is only affected by the visibility settings of your posts. More info on these at fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts…
The only way restricting followers affects visibility is if you make posts with "followers-only" visibility and also restrict who can follow you, which indirectly affects who can see your followers-only posts.
I'm not sure what Mastodon's in-house groups situation is.
Who can see my posts and replies in Mastodon? How do I choose post visibility settings? How do I send DMs in Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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in reply to Arne D. S. Haldorsen • • •Just putting a word or two in, because I am interested in the answer and can't find somewhere to follow the thread otherwise.
I'm also desperately looking for a groups sollution to offer members of my FB groups and subscription services won't work for that.
Best "group" sollution I have seen so far is following hashtags here on the Fediverse. UI is still too "geeky" for older users, though, so I'm still looking.
Arne D. S. Haldorsen
in reply to MaryPot 🏳️🌈 • • •So far I think NodeBB forums and Lemmy are the closest you'll get the FB groups experience, but they are still a bit too cumbersome.
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in reply to Arne D. S. Haldorsen • • •@MaryPot @harald@hub.volse.no
Discourse has just added Fediverse support too, so this is another option for groups.
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Re: @FediTips If I reply to a post from someone who has restricted who can follow them, then who can see my reply?
feditips@social.growyourown.services ahaldorsen@tutoteket.no feel free to reach out if you have trouble setting up or administering NodeBB.
We're on the fediverse, and happy to be here!
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in reply to Arne D. S. Haldorsen • • •mobilizon was actually built for groups organizing stuff and having a public presence. You can create events associated with the group of course, but also internal discussions, share resources, publish public or private announcements.
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in reply to rakoo • • •@rakoo @harald@hub.volse.no @MaryPot @ahaldorsen
Mobilizon is perhaps more for replacing Facebook Events? Facebook Groups is a bit more forum-like?
More info about Mobilizon here: fedi.tips/mobilizon-event-orga…
Mobilizon: Event organisation and discovery | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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in reply to MaryPot 🏳️🌈 • •@MaryPot 🏳️🌈 Friendica's private group management works very well at the moment, but can only be used by other Friendica users. The interface has improved significantly over the past two years, but it could be made even simpler. From this point of view, the Raccoon for Friendica app has improved the Friendica web interface, taking inspiration from the viewing mode present on Lemmy and other software in the "topicverse". By the way, Raccoon for Friendica also works with mastodon accounts and has the same simplified interface for groups, although – as I said before – only public Friendica groups work for Mastodon users, not private ones.
PS: Friendica also has an event manager, quite compatible with Mobilizon, Gancio and the WordPress Event bridge plugin. This makes it a great alternative to Facebook, but of course the problem is always the fact that Facebook's numbers, with all its billions of users, represent the real added value of that infernal platform 🤣
agendadigitale.eu/cultura-digi…
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MaryPot 🏳️🌈
in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •@notizie
Set up account. Am trying to figure out how groups work. Seems like Friendica is really a hub for oher group servers, such as Lemmy.world?
Because of the pottery aspect of the main group I would love to find a new home for, there are many people not very computer savvy, many of them. Easy navigation/UI is important.
I would love to join this group, but it says I have to be logged in, even though I think I can see it from my Friendica account.
lemmy.world/c/3dprinting
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in reply to MaryPot 🏳️🌈 • •@MaryPot 🏳️🌈
Friendica is primarily a macroblogging social network and while the topic view is not as nice as Lemmy, Piefed, MBin and NodeBB the group management support is well established.
Friendica is not friendly... but it is not that difficult to use either. If you're interested in a user guide, you can translate this post from Italian
informapirata.it/2024/07/25/w-…
Yes, just copy that link and paste it into the Friendica search box: then you'll see that community as if it were any user profile, except that you'll see it marked as a "group". As soon as you follow that account, you can post to that group simply by mentioning the group account in the first message of the thread. You just have to remember to make sure that the first paragraph of the first message is less than 200 characters, because Lemmy's compiler will make it the title of the thread (so you should NEVER put the mention of the account in the first line)
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in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •@notizie
I do English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and German... but no Italian. Do you have a different link for me? 🙂
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PS. Wasn't the whole idea of the Fediverse that it would be all-access? Without an account on every site? 🤔
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in reply to MaryPot 🏳️🌈 • •@MaryPot 🏳️🌈 Of course, yes, but this concerns interoperable functions such as reading, replying, reacting.
The more advanced functions however are features that some platforms have and others do not, so they only work within software with the same functionality.
Let me explain:
1) you can view a Mobilizon event from your Mastodon account, but you cannot create an event from Mastodon
2) you can view a peertube video from your Mastodon account, but you cannot upload a video to Peertube from your Mastodon account
3) you can create a new thread in a Friendica or Lemmy group, or reply to a thread in a Lemmy group from your Mastodon account, but you cannot join a private group from your Mastodon account
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