Simple Social Network

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@tea@a.gup.pe

There's a really good community feature on here called groups. It works like this:

1. Follow a group's account
2. You will start seeing posts on that topic
3. You can post to the group by @-ing it

For example, follow @tea to see posts about tea.

It's more powerful than following hashtags, as all group posts are actively pushed to all of the group's members. No one misses anything.

Find out more at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/, and I've curated some nice active groups at https://fedi.directory/tag/fediverse-groups/

Ellie Kennard

@feditips @tea and what about an #ebikes #ebike group?

David Gonzalez

@feditips Can we search for groups on Mastadon directly?

Leisureguy

@feditips Very coool. Thanks for posting.

Simon Müller :blobcatcoffee:

@feditips Finally, somebody telling me why groups are better than hashtags! Last time I asked, I didn't get very far.

EmmaGeek

@feditips @tea Thank you for taking the time to help us all learn about Fediverse.

Doreen32128

@feditips @tea Thank you!!

maegul

@feditips @tea

So, for everyone loving this idea and feature (which is fair, it's awesome), please keep the following in mind:

a.gup.pe (which provides the features) is not a part of mastodon, and neither groups as a feature. a.gup.pe are an independent organisation.

And like instance admins and mastodon itself, they rely on donations to pay the bills.

In fact, they have a co-op, which is cool!

See here for how you can join in and support them: https://opencollective.com/guppe-groups

The Evil Microwizard

@feditips @tea Wow! That is really cool and a feature I did not know about!

FediTips has moved!

p.s. I've rewritten the post so that it no longer mentions the tea group, as people were replying to the original post with the tea address included. This was filling the tea group with non-tea posts, as the group shares any post which mentions the group.

Apologies to the tea group for my carelessness.

For those interested in following the group, it's @ tea @ a.gup.pe with the spaces removed.