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thank you for all amazing work you do.
i am not qualified to feedback, but i have this question.
you also deigned guppe groups, right? that's more like a mailing list on activity pub. there, it is also necessary to mention a group so that group members receive the message.
does it differ from communities and how?
May 01 · 4 weeks ago
😈 dimkr [OP] · May 01 at 08:31:
@norayr Nope, I didn't know guppe but now I do thanks to you. From what I see, groups work the same way in all forum-like or aggregator-like fedi things: it's always this 'follow to join' and 'mention to post' pattern. tootik communities should work the same way as in guppe, minus one thing: the communities are created manually (by the instance admin) and not auto-created every time you mention a non-existing community. Otherwise, a malicious actor can create a community (mention a non-existing one), join with many spam accounts and send many posts, forcing this tootik instance to send them to all spam accounts.
understandable and perfectly reasonable.
tootik communities — I've been working on support for 'communities' in tootik. [https link] tootik is currently more like Mastodon, it's based on the idea of users that follow specific users and see a feed of activities by these followed users. Unlike Mastodon, tootik has some special handling for special "Group" users, like Lemmy or kbin communities: when you view the profile of such a user, tootik displays threads and sorts threads by last activity, instead of displaying all posts (...