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Seeking Community Insights on a Federated Communication Model with Friendica


in reply to PARLA

@Friendica Support
So, to clarify:
1) Is the forum (now group) feature, where a post in the group gets automatically reshared to other group members, designed exclusively for use within Friendica?

2) If so, does this mean that the functionality does not depend on the ActivityPub protocol and is therefore not expected to work across other federated platforms?

Understanding this distinction would help me determine whether my goal of using a Friendica group as a hub for cross-platform communication is feasible with the current implementation or if it requires additional workarounds or features.

Thank you for your clarification.

Best regards,
Poul Pock-Steen

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in reply to PARLA

@PARLA to clarify

1. A forum or group account can be followed from every other account in the fediverse
2. The functionality sending with the Bang notation "!" does only work in Friendica - sending as different account to the group account without sending it to the contacts of the "different account" and the group sending it then to its contacts on all platforms.
3. Maybe it could work as "different platform account" to use the @ notation to send it to the Friendica group. But I don't know. On the other platform it would look like a standard mention. You need to check.

This feature is working inside the ActivityPub protocol. But as I wrote, other platforms didn't implement this suggestion.



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@PARLA sharing a photo and a link to a Peertube video to @Classical Music and Beyond


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@[url=https://friendica.world/profile/classical]Classical Music and Beyond[/url]