I kind of like the name -- oriented to the horizon...
@Matt_Noyes
One minor problem so far: if I am already following whoever mentioned @horizonalNetwork
the group does not seem to repeat their toot.
Which makes perfect sense, I don't need to see it twice. But in that case, I wonder if the @GuppeGroups does any more toward internetworking toots than a #horizontalNetwork hashtag?
In Mastodon, hashtags are a way of organizing toots that you have come in contact with, but they don't help you find new toots outside your network.
@GuppeGroups is designed to help you grow your network around topics of interest; if two unconnected people both participate in a group, it will cause them to become connected
For posts between people who are already connected, though, the group doesn't really add anything beyond a hashtag
@datatitian
I didn't understand that @GuppeGroups were not about existing groups, but about attracting unconnected people to a topic and so getting them connected.
But now I think I do.
@bhaugen @GuppeGroups @Matt_Noyes Well that was my motivation for making it, but feel free to use it however it can be useful to you!
Some of us were looking for ways for groups to organize themselves (act like groups) in the fediverse without all congregating in the same instance, which doesn't help a lot as the population of the instances grow, and wondered if @GuppeGroups could help with that. From the experiments so far, not much. But I could always be missing something...
@Matt_Noyes
@bhaugen @GuppeGroups @Matt_Noyes what features would you need for it to serve that purpose better?
@datatitian @GuppeGroups @Matt_Noyes
I'm reluctant to suggest adding features to something that works and we just need to learn what it's good for (and not good for).
I'm personally still thinking hard about this idea that came to me from the last meeting of a not-very-organized group and wondering if the fediverse could help us get better organized, and if so, how?
It's about getting more actively connected more than attracting more people.
Later for that. Hope that made sense.
Happy to have voice chats with people circling these ideas - I think I can add in the way of organising constructive chats, perhaps moderated, with an agenda to see what the perspectives or problems are or simply explore what we're not sure about just for clarity and then towards enjoying solving them,
Anyone welcome. Might be hard at first to label what we are thinking but together can help each other get there.
