Does mastodon support groups or communities? like lemmy the users can make groups or communities and manage them.

  • choyer (elsica)@elsica.social
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    1 year ago

    @jay91 It doesn’t but I believe it’s planned for the future. For a classical forum-type groups implementation, Friendica is your best option, for Reddit style, Lemmy and Kbin.

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy is good, but i want to start a community in Arabic, RTL, and lemmy does not support RTL for now. this is why i’m looking for alternatives. i don’t know if Kbin supports RTL.

  • Matt@lemmy.world
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    Not officially - but they’ll be adding groups in one of their future updates (not 4.2, unfortunately). That will work exactly as you’d expect.

    However in the meantime, people use Guppe Groups (https://a.gup.pe/), which are a type of “user” which boosts all posts sent to it to other people following it. For example, I could follow @bikes@a.gup.pe and anytime anyone mentions @bikes@a.gup.pe, the post will be boosted to all other users following @bikes@a.gup.pe.

    The above is how Lemmy communities work when followed from Mastodon, as well.

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      I’ve used this and it worked pretty well. The issue I had was when people start chatting and leave the group pinger in the convo. But that was more of an etiquette issue than a technical issue.