Simple Social Network

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There's a new groups system for the Fediverse called chirp.social. More info at:

You can join a group by following the group account. You can post to the group by @-ing the group account, which then reposts that to all its other followers

It is similar to the existing https://a.gup.pe system, but chirp.social allows a group manager to delete posts and ban people from the group.

It works on all Fediverse platforms including Mastodon.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Misha

@feditips what's the difference with following hashtags?

f00f/eris/continuum/etc

@feditips this is a positive step forward! maybe some of the Guppe groups more vulnerable to abuse could move there if it sticks around

Maybe(oz)

@feditips Isn't it like a mailing-list, or a newsgroup rebuilt on top of HTTP+JSON? 🤔

Yasoo Morimoto

@feditips Awesome!

L Smith

@feditips
I have a different issue. Sometimes when I get out of Mastodon, on the next entrance I'm at the same post I was at before, so I can continue.

But sometimes when I reenter, I'm placed on the most recent post, causing me to have to backtrack to where I last was.

That's pretty frustrating.

Another is when I decide to comment, I can't see the post I was going to comment on. I like to look at the post for reference.

Ruby Sinreich

@feditips

@Kanter maybe this would be a good way to connect people around #nptech !

Chris Helming :enby: :they:

@feditips whoa, neat!

Chris Carlin

@feditips
I would just strongly encourage people using these group systems to choose usernames that make it clear that they are a group and not a single user.

The normal expectation is that citing a username/handle is communicating with an individual actor. It can cause trouble when these go against that norm.

I wish this had been implemented within the protocol or UIs themselves, but until that happens...

#ActivityPub, #Mastodon, #aguppe, and #chirpsocial users should be careful.

@feditips do you have to belong to an instance to follow a group on chirp.social? In other words, can you only join/follow the group if you are already on Mastodon or elsewhere in the Fediverse? It seems to me you don't have to be on Mastodon to create a grroup, hence my question.

Cynthia :verified_paw:

@feditips This is cool I didn't know it existed until now.

Alex Brown

@feditips might they later try to monetize it or is it community?

Condalmo

@feditips How does one start a group?

@feditips @Tribo cod you help figure how that works? we might need one for the usual bordsite fav hashtag

FediTips has moved!

p.s. Just to make clear, the https://chirp.social system uses account addresses.

You create a group by registering on https://chirp.social. You join the group by following the group's account address. You post to the group by mentioning the group's account address.

More info about what account addresses are here: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#WhatsMyAccountsAddress

Every account on the Fediverse has a unique account address.

So for example to join the Art group on chirp.social you follow @art

Chris Godwin :vf:

@feditips very slow

Mark Gardner

@feditips Bonus advantage over Guppe: no political agenda in the README

☆joene☆

@feditips 🤔

Mo Rijndael :sparkletrans:

@feditips cc @drq

Dan Jones

This looks really cool, except for this: "I'm using Firebase Authentication for sign-ups, so I can't see the passwords."

Firebase is a proprietary Google service. So, instead of the passwords being sent to chirp.social, which could hash it for security, it's sent to Google, and nobody knows what they do with it.

I wouldn't create a group on it for that reason. And I wouldn't consider it truly open source because of that dependency.

@feditips

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@feditips I needed to know about something like this.

Now I know about it for sure.