Who misses Facebook Groups -- and wishes 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:
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Who misses Facebook Groups -- and wishes 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:
Chris Trottier
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •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".
Chris Trottier
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •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!
(Caveat: as long as you're federated.)
Chris Trottier
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •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.
Chris Trottier
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •"Facebook-like" Groups on Friendica (they're officially 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.
Mark Atwood
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Joel de Bruijn
in reply to Mark Atwood • • •But I do like Discourse for more topic-structured forums. But I understand correctly that a fediversable forum is also possible?
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in reply to Joel de Bruijn • • •Apart from the groups (forum) thing, Friendica is really good at “floating” posts (which of course could be topic-specific) to “the top” of their streams, based on interactions in the thread. This is a user setting, and the user can set various criteria for when a topic should bounce up to the top of the stream, but the thinking is very much like in Discourse (and other) forum software.
The user can chose between having threads (and that is the full threads, starting with the original post on top and with all the comments in the thread) bounced to the top based on “latest interaction”, “latest post” and “latest creation”. Why is this good? Well for very busy threads that thread could otherwise dominate the view for a day or two, and if you wish to see things your friends who are not in that thread post you can filter so that “latest creation” perhaps give you a wider view of the rest of your contacts (who are not interacting in the “monster thread”).
For the user of Friendica this means
... Show more...Apart from the groups (forum) thing, Friendica is really good at āfloatingā posts (which of course could be topic-specific) to āthe topā of their streams, based on interactions in the thread. This is a user setting, and the user can set various criteria for when a topic should bounce up to the top of the stream, but the thinking is very much like in Discourse (and other) forum software.
The user can chose between having threads (and that is the full threads, starting with the original post on top and with all the comments in the thread) bounced to the top based on ālatest interactionā, ālatest postā and ālatest creationā. Why is this good? Well for very busy threads that thread could otherwise dominate the view for a day or two, and if you wish to see things your friends who are not in that thread post you can filter so that ālatest creationā perhaps give you a wider view of the rest of your contacts (who are not interacting in the āmonster threadā).
For the user of Friendica this means that their home stream isnāt filled by disconnected replies saying āI agree!ā or āThat was beautiful!ā and you then have to open up that message to get the context (like on Mastodon); In Friendica you instead get the full thread, and the āI agree!ā message is clearly shown as a reply to something specific that you also can see, which might be a reaction to a reply in a longer thread that you also can see.
#Friendica is great.
@mark @atomicpoet
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