Who misses Facebook Groups -- and wish something similar existed on the Fediverse?
Well, it does!
In fact, I just created a Facebook-like group on Friendica.
Here's a demo of one:
If you want to follow this "Facebook-like" Group, then follow @fediversenews
This is what this looks like from Mastodon -- as you can see, it's identified as a "Group".
So how do you add anything to a Friendica Group like @fediversenews?
It's simple! You just give the group a mention, and your post gets reshared there!
Many of you are going to ask me how to start a "Facebook-like" Group on Friendica.
That's a fair question!
I will go in depth either tonight or tomorrow.
For now, you might as well just know that it exists -- and it works.
"Facebook-like" Groups on Friendica (they're called Forums) are also why I'm so stubborn about referring to this social netowrk as the Fediverse.
Why?
Because Mastodon can't do "Facebook-like" Groups.
If you want to use this feature, you have to use a service like Friendica -- which is *drastically* different from Mastodon.
Nevertheless, you can follow these "Facebook-like" Groups on Mastodon -- because Mastodon is part of the Fediverse.
@atomicpoet "Facebook-like Groups" can be done over the ActivityStreams protocol. Mastodon is not a covering implementation, it implements just enough to be a Twitter clone. If someone would just read the damn spec and then write a performant fully covering implementation, it could replace: Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Groups, Facebook Events, Meetup, Reddit, Hackernews, Discourse, Slashdot, Disquis, LiveJournal, Instagram, Youtube, etc etc etc.
@mark @atomicpoet realistically, how much funding would be required to make this happen?
