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		rakoo on Nov 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mastodon: Servers, Good and Bad We agree fundamentally: federation is not compatible with community-on-a-server, and the latter is being phased out by the Mastodon devs. The future is in groups that can span multiple servers and fully use federation.

lijogdfljk on Nov 28, 2022 [–]

Ooo neat, i'll have to look into Groups. Thanks!

rakoo on Nov 29, 2022 | [–]

Right there's https://a.gup.pe/ but it's a hack and isn't meant to work long term. The long term thing is proper group actors and stuff in ActivityPub, and it's being discussed here I believe: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/standardizing-on-activ...

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